Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
| 2 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 3 | Does that mean that Anna has actually slept in that too ? |
| 4 | Sir Duncan Nichol has recently moved in this direction ( letter to regional general managers , 22 Dec 1992 ) . |
| 5 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 6 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 7 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 8 | But compared with the Monnet ideal in France , or the corporate strategy of Japan , Britain had scarcely planned in any meaningful sense at all . |
| 9 | The vertigo of hanging between cultures is something Lepage has obsessively explored in all his work . |
| 10 | Grace had already taken in all that could be salvaged of Willis 's clothing , for drying and mending . |
| 11 | Carol Eastman had also written in some other characteristics of Nicholson himself , such as his directness , his honesty and his ability to cut through hypocritical jargon . |