Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] have [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 2 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 3 | After John had given me a thorough brief on the ground , I took-off from Duxford and ten seconds later I was in thick cloud . |
| 4 | For Martin had built himself a handsome new house . |
| 5 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 6 | But the dangers in observation are perhaps implicit in the word , and observation can all too easily become realism , and realism is as Piaget has reminded us a kind of confusion between the inner and the outer — a fixing in the object something which is an activity of the thinking subject . |
| 7 | When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls . |