Example sentences of "has [vb pp] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 2 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 3 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 4 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 5 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 6 | Store has got it in the can |
| 7 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 8 | He has raised it with the contractor . |
| 9 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 10 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 11 | Like Malone , Anderson has laid it on the line to his players . |
| 12 | He has proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt . |
| 13 | Conrad ( 1971 ) has shown that this has a developmental pattern and Baddeley ( 1979 ) has linked it to the development of reading . |
| 14 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 15 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 16 | Pilar Wayne now says she ca n't afford the upkeep on ‘ La Roca ’ in exclusive Newport Beach , California , and has put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 17 | But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia . |
| 18 | And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case . |
| 19 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 20 | The word ‘ aquatint ’ has begun to obtrude itself , and it is worth taking space and time for this particular form of illustration , because of its particular beauty and because fashion , in this case probably rightly , has elected it to the aristocracy , if not the crown royal , of the illustrated book world . |
| 21 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |