Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 2 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 3 | Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’ |
| 4 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 5 | This project has received much local support and she has set up a group of people who will organise it long term . |
| 6 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 7 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Most important of all he has run down a number of performances previously unknown . |
| 9 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 10 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 11 | Talking about his future , Keith says that he has turned down an approach from Rugby and it 's up to Gloucester now whether they keep him on . |
| 12 | Henry is trying to trace the two men with whom he has struck up an acquaintance : |
| 13 | He has taken on a personality , like those crackpots who claim to have been reincarnated , from another culture . |
| 14 | At first Minton felt he was too involved with things to get away : ‘ As for Dimbulb Verrico , ’ he told Hunt , ‘ he has taken out a licence to marry his motorbicycle , and I have not seen him since you left … |
| 15 | Accordingly , he has drawn up a document outlining his position on negotiations which he means to make public , so the people are fully apprised of the proposals that would be on the table . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 17 | It 's one topic where he has figured out a way of linking present to past that really gets fourth-years moving . |
| 18 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 19 | In Peter 's case he has put down a marker for next year , when he will still be young enough to try . |
| 20 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 21 | He has set up a Capital Works Co-ordination Team , led by Murdo Gray who will report through David McGuigan . |
| 22 | He has set up a centre for research into equine exercise physiology and equine sports injury at Bristol University College which hopefully will increase our understanding of equine sports injuries . |
| 23 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 24 | He has set up a sales organisation within the company 's trade and industry division , in conjunction with four partners — Braunschweig-based Unilab Software GmbH ; CTS GmbH , based in Heusenstamm , near Frankfurt ; Dresden-based SRS GmbH ; and DOM GmbH of Munich . |
| 25 | He has set up a sales organisation within the company 's trade and industry division , in conjunction with four partners — Braunschweig-based Unilab Software GmbH ; CTS GmbH , based in Heusenstamm , near Frankfurt ; Dresden-based SRS GmbH ; and DOM GmbH of Munich . |
| 26 | Such is Mitterrand 's passion for golf that he has set up a Commission Ministerielle de terminologie du sport . |
| 27 | He has set up a science and technology management group within the DoI which coordinates the work of its different divisions . |
| 28 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 29 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 30 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |