Example sentences of "'s [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Aug. 29 Bhutto 's opponents had reportedly agreed to forge a common front but remained divided into factions led respectively by Jatoi , Nawaz Sharif ( Chief Minister of Punjab province until dissolution ) , Mohammad Khan Junejo ( Prime Minister in 1985-88 under Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq ) and by Zia 's son Ejaz ul-Haq . |
| 2 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 3 | Even though Dr. Vann 's practice has not applied to become a fund-holding practice you mentioned the GP fundholder brochure which , while mentioning the 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Japan 's exporters have already had to go through a punishing belt-tightening , prompted by the yen 's steep rise against the dollar after 1985 . |
| 5 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 6 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 7 | Jessamy 's knees had immediately begun to shake , and she had wheeled round and run out . |
| 8 | Conder 's management has also asked to have spaces in the remaining car park reserved for its staff . |
| 9 | Seymour Drescher 's work has recently sought to underline the significance of petitioning by comparison with its role in French antislavery and as a high proportion of all petitions to the British parliament in particular years . |
| 10 | Leila 's father had somehow got to hear of it and in her case , of course , the consequences were worse . |
| 11 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 12 | Mazowiecki 's government had earlier vowed to end monopolistic practices and state subsidies for parties . |
| 13 | His daughter 's beauty had never ceased to surprise the chief inspector . |
| 14 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 15 | POLITICAL demonstrators in Czechoslovakia 's streets have not hesitated to shout their views of President Gustav Husak . |
| 16 | Austen Chamberlain had been trained to be a conventional statesman ; Rugby , Cambridge and a determination to live down his father 's reputation had all combined to make him the most conformist of politicians . |
| 17 | The children 's nurse has never seemed to grasp |
| 18 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |
| 19 | Borland 's competitors have often tended to adopt a less flexible approach to licensing , making corporate licences available only to those with many thousands of users , as opposed to Binder 's 1,000 to 1,500 population . |
| 20 | Henry noted how the detective inspector 's speech had now widened to include words like ‘ poison ’ and ‘ murderer ’ . |