Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 2 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 3 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 4 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 5 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 6 | The dual Oaks runner-up is not at her best on soft ground and trainer Michael Kauntze has left her in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on Sunday . |
| 7 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 8 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
| 9 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 10 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 11 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 12 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 13 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 14 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 15 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 16 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 17 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 18 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 19 | Even though her motive may have been a desire to manipulate the situation , her wish was supported by Dr. M. and , initially at least , by Dr. D. In those circumstances I entertain grave doubts that if Thorpe J. had directed himself in the way I have suggested , that W. 's wishes should be respected unless there were very strong reasons for rejecting them , he would have reached the decision which he did . |
| 20 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 21 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 22 | Maidstone 's peculiar behaviour earlier that day , Franco 's strange tale about the pile of money Maidstone had showed him in the bar and now Maidstone 's death itself . |
| 23 | Last night , Miles had kissed her in the pantry . |
| 24 | When he came to the car , Ana had established herself in the back with Mitch and he would have needed to be extremely unpleasant to order them out . |
| 25 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 26 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |
| 27 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 28 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |
| 29 | It was the way he 'd got out the time Barry had locked him in the tractor-shed . |
| 30 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |