Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 2 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 3 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 4 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 6 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 7 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 8 | Whether you 've stuck with the same old style for years , want to find out the options for covering grey or simply want to learn how to manage your hair better , Charles will demonstrate practical ways to help you make the most of your hair . |
| 9 | All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] . |
| 10 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 11 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 12 | He and Moran had fought in the same flying column in the war . |
| 13 | The new agency would be directed by Yuri Koptev , who had worked with the former Soviet military complex VPK , and would had a staff of 150 people . |
| 14 | I always have to talk about the same damned things … |
| 15 | This suggests that either two separate integration events have occurred in the same trypanosome , or that the ST3 line is polyclonal . |
| 16 | They report that the odds of qualifying for HE for the upwardly mobile are doubled relative to those who have stayed in the same social class . |
| 17 | The primary function of the centres is the documentation of modern and contemporary artists who work or have worked in the former Eastern-bloc countries and the promotion of living artists previously unknown to the West . |