Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 2 | Well Mr er pleading guilty to these offenses and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf the main offence of having no excise licence you 'll be fined seventy five pounds and be willing to pay eighty pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs and for the offenses of failing to produce you 'll be fined ten pounds for each of those three offenses . |
| 3 | It has had for its end the production of a convincing explanation of the writer 's understanding of the origin of the Created God , that is , a God that man can endow with recognisable origins to be found far back in time and with qualities from which the desire to have an absolute standard of human behaviour can ultimately be evolved . |
| 4 | On your return you should then carefully review with the person who has acted on your behalf the tasks which they did well and those which were less satisfactory . |
| 5 | Mrs Brown has spoken to her MP the Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke , for his part , has rediscovered for his party the meaning of the word community . |
| 7 | For the most part , the literature of the United States has taken as its concern the architecture of a new white man . |
| 8 | David Edyvean , who has had installed in his shop the Bestseller EPOS system , which has an interface to Buyline and links to TeleOrdering , BookBank and other CD-ROM databases — explained that despite a personal lack of technical expertise , careful investment in new technology had enabled his shop to establish a competitive edge . |
| 9 | Those who took an interest in Clara might have seen in his death the loss of an ally , because outwardly at least he appeared to be more intelligent than his wife ; at least he did not scorn in public , as she did , all efforts of the mind , and all the aims of education . |
| 10 | Everyone said she must have struggled from her sick-bed the moment she realized that the aunt left in charge during her illness had sadly neglected her little boy . |
| 11 | In 1858 Ewing wrote an open letter complaining of these controversies without which , ‘ at the time of the great Presbyterian disruption … we should have absorbed within our pale the bulk of the sober-minded and educated of Scotland . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If the Countess of Anjou had not been so anxious to correct any false impressions we may have had about your arrival the negotiations might have dragged on indefinitely . |
| 13 | The complainant maintained ( amongst other things ) that the District Alkali Inspector should have offered in his evidence the fact that a similar plant owned by the firm had been mentioned in the Chief Alkali Inspector 's Annual Reports for 1962 to 1965 as a result of a complaint about a ‘ tom cat smell ’ . |
| 14 | We should by now have demonstrated to your satisfaction the enormous importance of the process of settlement . |
| 15 | And you 'd huv thought a choc ice wouldny have melted in her mouth the wey she cam' in clutching her quarter of matinee mixture quite the cats pyjamas her fur collar swagger . |
| 16 | it would have gone to whichever region the sales manager responsible or the regional managing director |
| 17 | Ms Oruene claimed that the faculty had varied to her detriment the terms on which it granted membership . |
| 18 | That voice I 've missed wasting no time in telling me its owner had dined with my secretary the previous evening . ’ |
| 19 | It might have been said that since one representative was absent they could not do anything about it , but the fact of the matter is they plainly had come to their decision the day before . |
| 20 | He had incorporated into his empire the Ogaden , the town of Harar , the lands of the Galla tribes , the Gurage country , the ancient kingdom of Kaffa , and the Anuak and other tribes on the borders of the Sudan . |
| 21 | Well , as I was explaining , we 've built into our amplifier the pressure-sensitive transducer of pressure-sensitive attenuating network , which is the inverse of an equal loudness curve , the resultant readings being denoted by D B As , that 's decibels of the A kind . |
| 22 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 23 | She had remembered from our dinner the week before . |
| 24 | But I was conscious of the sexual deviancies in the story , and I had fixed in my mind the idea of making the movie asexual . |
| 25 | A woolly-jumpered Colin Wilson was photographed for the press in his Notting Hill bedsit and under the tree in Hampstead Heath where he had worked on his best-seller The Outsider , a paean to the existential rebel Wilson wished to be . |
| 26 | The night of the hollands had left in its wake the day of the doldrums at Blue Horizons . |
| 27 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 28 | A brand-new Tavern , redolent of fresh mortar and size , and fronting nothing at all , had taken for its sign The Rail way Arms ; but that might be rash enterprise — and then it hoped to sell drink to the workmen . |
| 29 | She had forced on her mother the excuse of a visit to a cousin in Whitehaven . |
| 30 | When Jesus had returned to his Father the apostles did as he had told them and returned to the city . |