Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 2 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 3 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 4 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 5 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 7 | The familiar story of the artists ' model ( female ) sitting for hours , days , even weeks on end , for a ( male ) artist , has brought us some of the great ‘ nudes ’ in art history . |
| 8 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 9 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 10 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 11 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 12 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 13 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 14 | Ah 'm sure he will have told ye that on the phone . ’ |
| 15 | You should have told them that about the poppy seeds . |
| 16 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 17 | No I would but I would have told you that on the phone . |
| 18 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 19 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 20 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |
| 21 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 22 | And I was not in the position to show the sternness which would have nipped it all in the bud . |
| 23 | Corbett had heard that the Scots were a crude race but their cooks could have held their own with the best in Europe . |
| 24 | I 've given her some of the Veronal her doctor prescribed and she 's gone to bed . |
| 25 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 26 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 27 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 28 | Well they 've got them all outside the erm lock gates now . |
| 29 | You 've got your own in the front . |
| 30 | She wished Peter had told her more about the situation before getting her involved . |