Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 2 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 3 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 4 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 5 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 6 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 7 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 10 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 11 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 12 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
| 13 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 14 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 15 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 16 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 17 | This has led her beyond the sciences , but the philosophical and literary implications of her involvement with the theories of Heisenberg and others have left a lasting mark on her work . |
| 18 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 19 | The city council , responsible for housing people with Aids , has taken her off the streets and put her in a room in a single-occupancy hotel . |
| 20 | Sedgefield Racers make the long trip to Chiltern tonight looking to maintain an end of season run that has taken them to the fringes of the play-off chase . |
| 21 | Their hazardous journey has taken them over the mountains between Metkovic in Croatia to Zenica in Bosnia . |
| 22 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
| 23 | We 'll drive over to Baden for dinner and I promise to get you back before your mama realizes that Big Bad Gesner has abducted you over the mountains . ’ |
| 24 | When a placement does run into problems , Catherine Macaskill ( 1985b ) has warned us of the dangers of thinking that adoption will solve the problems : |
| 25 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 26 | One of the things that has puzzled me over the years is the obsession with high protein baits . |
| 27 | He addresses God as the God of Abraham and Isaac , the God who has commanded this return to the Land , and who has assured him with the words , ‘ I will do you good . ’ |
| 28 | Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre . |
| 29 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 30 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |