Example sentences of "the [noun] have [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 2 | But he says the case has cost him more than that . |
| 3 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 4 | Historical and sociological studies of the curriculum have shown us that school subjects are not simply rationally selected for explicit educational aims but are reflections of larger social and political forces . |
| 5 | The secretaries have got it this time , and we are just left at the bottom of the ladder again . |
| 6 | ‘ The catch in this heaven , ’ she went on , ‘ is that the brain has only got so much dopamine to offer , and once the cocaine has used it all up , then that 's the end of the pleasure . |
| 7 | The rest I 've put in the gutter off the path and of course the wind 's blown them all back off again . |
| 8 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ I must confess the fire at the manor has caused me some problems , ’ admitted Christian . |
| 10 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 11 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 12 | ‘ People associated with the council have called me all sorts of things . |
| 13 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 14 | The years had changed them both , matured them too — Katherine more so than Dermot . |
| 15 | nothing stops that race but the weather has put paid today to Gloucestershire 's big game … their match against Australia was washed out and abandoned in a draw … but the water has done us some good turns |
| 16 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 17 | However , Joanne and her parents agree that having the baby has brought them all closer together as a family , and it has provided a focus and role for her mother who , after Joanne 's account , tells her version of the way that this has positively transformed her life . |
| 18 | The game had brought them all together , and even Demian 's morbidity had become accepted . |
| 19 | England have only beaten the Turks 1–0 in their last two clashes and Wright admitted : ‘ The manager has given me another chance , now I 'm desperate to repay that faith . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Because the pigs had eaten them all , ’ said the bachelor immediately . |
| 22 | The generosity of the offer had surprised them all and had prompted a whole spate of spontaneous offers . |
| 23 | If I know something , it 's because the Lord has given me some understanding . |
| 24 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 25 | ‘ The Americans have offered us all the help we want . |
| 26 | Sir William dealt with this in his own typical fashion , hanging three Douglas ringleaders there and then , but demanding a like example to be made of the Hamiltons , which was scarcely equitable , since the Douglases had started it all and were three times as numerous as their hereditary foes . |
| 27 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 28 | A club spokesman said : ‘ The doctors have given him another scan and he was taken off the life-support machine . ’ |
| 29 | The Emperor had humbugged them all , and the killing would begin . |
| 30 | The letter had subdued them both . |