Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 2 | An anonymous businessman has given them the remaining amount . |
| 3 | I only wonder why nobody has given us the small print of the Social Chapter that Labour and the Liberal Democrats want so badly . |
| 4 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 5 | God has given us the Holy Spirit so that He can work in His world . |
| 6 | Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage . |
| 7 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 8 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 9 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 10 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 11 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 12 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 13 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 15 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 16 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 17 | Heading up Wood Group engineering 's activities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is Bill Reid who has sent us the following report : . |
| 18 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |
| 19 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 20 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 21 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 22 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 23 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 24 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 25 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 26 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 27 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 28 | The Goldsmiths allowed Gurney £300 , Norris £200 , and Coombes £150 " in consideration of their services " , having dismissed them the previous April with effect from 25th March 1860 . |
| 29 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 30 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |