Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him . |
| 2 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 4 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 5 | An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home . |
| 6 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 7 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 8 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 9 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 10 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 11 | And she has agreed to a cow at last , next week , I must — ’ |
| 12 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 13 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 14 | She has worked as a freelance fabric designer in New York , specialising in the production of hand painted silks . |
| 15 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 16 | At the age of seventy five she has to wade through a sea of mud to get to her council home at Cinderford in Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | She has acted as a consultant to both the International Tennis Federation and the South American Tennis Confederation and was instrumental in helping to develop women 's tennis throughout Latin America before taking on the role of spokesperson for Tennis Interlink . |
| 18 | She has to get through a lot of work but always accept interruptions . |
| 19 | She has put on a bit , but |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 21 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 22 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 23 | He has retired with a Jersey cow , 10 cats and some geese to a cosy smallholding . |
| 24 | On 7 May the applicant was admitted to bail , and so far as we are aware has been at liberty ever since , although it appears that he has appeared on a number of occasions at the Guildhall Magistrates ' Court , to what effect we do not know . |
| 25 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 26 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 27 | I am aware he has met on a number of occasions with our members , and he was instrumental in selecting a team , which met with the General Secretary of USDAW who said that they had had a er a er reasonable meeting with him . |
| 28 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 29 | Although recognised for his early signature puff-ball and trapeze shapes , he has matured into a designer capable of producing the perfect little black dress , and a mixture of easy pieces that reflect the quirky charm that is his keynote . |
| 30 | He is a master at keeping a rhythm throughout , picking up speed as soon as he has landed over a fence , and taking the most economical route . |