Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just look at some of the thought-provoking policies I have introduced this season . |
| 2 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 3 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 4 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 5 | Several times I have seen other researchers do this and have watched higher managers set the scene and limit the enquiry to specific areas — outside management proper — as though the problem existed in a vacuum. , ( Dalton 1959 ) |
| 6 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 7 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 8 | No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and |
| 9 | When I revived , Wart-Face ( who introduced himself as Jean Capote ) and his companion Claude Broussac , rat-faced with a pointed nose , greasy hair and the cheekiest eyes I have seen this side of Hell , were bending over me , forcing a cup of scalding posset between my lips . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 11 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 12 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 13 | And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running . |
| 14 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 15 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 16 | The card you get from the man says that if you get into arrears you have to pay extra interest , but it does n't say how much . |
| 17 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 18 | Among all our other irresistible attractions we had advertised free fishing in the River Meloch and the millpond , and a prospective holiday-maker asked , over the telephone , what kind of fish were to be found there . |
| 19 | In a move to achieve these goals we have merged two factory units into one . ’ |
| 20 | Over recent months we have seen several convictions for serious crimes overturned . |
| 21 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 22 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 23 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 24 | In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet . |
| 25 | Yeah well then this has got all glass domes it 's got little patterns and they 're three d and coming out ! |
| 26 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 27 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 28 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 29 | During peak periods I 've known 200 lorries waiting to tip , backing-up out of the port and along the surrounding roads . |
| 30 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |