Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 2 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 3 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 4 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 5 | You need a bit of luck in these games and while England have had it over the years , Wales have n't . |
| 6 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 7 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 8 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 9 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 12 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 13 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 14 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 15 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 16 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To begin with , the Gnomes thought it a fine idea to be part of the traditional Fidchell and Bith of the Bog-Hat told how the Wolfkings had played it during the Winter Solstice with solid gold figures studded with ivory and pearl , which the Gnomes always had the supplying of . |
| 19 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |
| 20 | We 've got it in , Geoff 's got it in the car we 're gon na try again on the way home . |
| 21 | What if Ben had left it with the man in Lancaster ? |
| 22 | Madeleine had recorded it in the baby book . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 24 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 25 | Paul 's got it in the bowl , in a , in a , on a bowl ? |
| 26 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |
| 27 | Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players . |
| 28 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 29 | The thief had leapt into the Sierra after Janet had left it with the engine running . |
| 30 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |