Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [art] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is Clara Hale , known mostly just as Mother Hale , and since she first laid a row of cots across the living room of her flat on 122nd Street in Harlem in 1943 , she has become the Mother Teresa of New York 's black slums . |
| 2 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
| 3 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 4 | Mrs Coven is the ‘ outsize ’ adviser to Peter Robinson and she has borrowed the Derby Cup in order that it be displayed in their window . |
| 5 | But , he says , the WRVS comes first and , two months into his appointment , he has visited every WRVS division in the country and seems to be enjoying himself immensely . |
| 6 | Recently , he has met the ANC president , Oliver Tambo . |
| 7 | Mr Waddington also announced that he has accepted a Commons home affairs committee recommendation that police officers should not be able to escape disciplinary proceedings by retiring on medical grounds . |
| 8 | Mr McLeish said : ‘ Alex Salmond must now reveal the extent to which he has made the SNP hostage to this Tory Government . |
| 9 | Breaking the habit of a lifetime , he has joined a Commons standing committee . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 11 | He has filed a PCT application ( 82/04174 ) in 30 countries for what is unashamedly a perpetual motion machine . |
| 12 | He has acquired a King Midas in reverse touch . |
| 13 | He has acquired the Cork Street premises vacated three years ago by Bernard Jacobson . |
| 14 | Scottish Office staff believes it has made the IACS literature terse and ‘ user friendly ’ . |
| 15 | The Black Hats versus White Hats centenary match took place on May Day , Monday the 5th May 1980 , as part of a ‘ family fun day ’ , and it has remained a May Day event on alternate years since then . |
| 16 | The country is very keen to host the summer Olympics in the year 2000 and , with a visit pending from an International Olympic Committee delegation , Beijing is determined to show that it has put the Tiananmen Square massacre behind it . |
| 17 | It has won the Silver Nymph Award at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo and the Royal Television Society 's Award for ‘ Best Drama Serial ’ of 1989 . |
| 18 | AT&T 's NCR Federal Systems Division is upgrading some of the products it is supplying as part of US government contracts : it has added the AT&T StarStation 386 DX PC to its $800 million , eight-year Office Automation Technology and Services ( OATS ) contract with the the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) which it won back in in 1989 — 12,500 Intel 80386-based personal computers and 2,500 laptops have been shipped so far — and has upgraded computers supplied under the 1988 , $1bn Standard Multi-user Small Computer Requirements Contract to run Unix SVR4 . |
| 19 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 20 | It has targeted the Redcar area in a bid to persuade travellers to use stations at Redcar East and Redcar Central by distributing thousands of leaflets through letter boxes . |
| 21 | Portland Group claims it has got the US market ‘ pretty well stitched up , ’ and will re-focus efforts on cracking the European market and the low-end of the i860 vendor spectrum . |