Example sentences of "the [noun] have [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ People associated with the council have called me all sorts of things . |
| 32 | The A G M , the last two years people have said well there 's not a great deal of point in coming along other than for a drink because er the committee 's got it all sorted out , you know , beforehand as regards who 's doing what . |
| 33 | The village has bought its own playing field and children 's play equipment . |
| 34 | He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher ! |
| 35 | By 1960 the process had achieved its own momentum so that |
| 36 | The Gruntes had gone their own ways for years , but Marjorie had a taste for practical jokes . |
| 37 | Steele , in charge of Music , had joined the staff in 1946 , and over the years had instilled his own love of music into hundreds of pupils by means which , if slightly idiosyncratic , were enormously successful , and had nurtured talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups , and soloists . |
| 38 | The years had changed them both , matured them too — Katherine more so than Dermot . |
| 39 | But the disappearance of his son , Larry , in the war has passed its own sentence on the family . |
| 40 | The group has revised its own specification to require most of the recommended items to be incorporated in any new vehicles that are purchased . |
| 41 | But since the rules are that the place has to pay its own way , he has welcomed all comers , from the World Indoor Bowls Championship to Militant Tendency , who staged their annual conference in the Palace of the People . |
| 42 | The Securitate has regained its former power and keeps the minorities in the same old state of terror and repression . |
| 43 | In his The Loves of Mars and Venus the dancers had to tell their own story in different ways . |
| 44 | nothing stops that race but the weather has put paid today to Gloucestershire 's big game … their match against Australia was washed out and abandoned in a draw … but the water has done us some good turns |
| 45 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 46 | Each separate constituent part of the organisation had developed its own personnel information systems and methods of operation . |
| 47 | It was not surprising to find that each part of the organisation had developed its own method of personnel operation and had created personnel systems to support these . |
| 48 | On this basis the UK had held its own relative to the USA over 25 years but had fallen below the average of the six , certainly below Japan , West Germany and France ; indeed Japan overtook the UK in 1972 , West Germany in the early 1960s , and France in the late 1960s , but on this calculation the UK still lay ahead of Italy . |
| 49 | But the androids have developed their own emotional responses and therefore they suffer as the humans do . |
| 50 | However , Joanne and her parents agree that having the baby has brought them all closer together as a family , and it has provided a focus and role for her mother who , after Joanne 's account , tells her version of the way that this has positively transformed her life . |
| 51 | The game had brought them all together , and even Demian 's morbidity had become accepted . |
| 52 | England have only beaten the Turks 1–0 in their last two clashes and Wright admitted : ‘ The manager has given me another chance , now I 'm desperate to repay that faith . |
| 53 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 54 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Because the pigs had eaten them all , ’ said the bachelor immediately . |
| 56 | The Court of Appeal held that the owner had stolen his own car because the victim had been deprived of " possession or control of it " . |
| 57 | It has long been recognised that the Commission has required its own independent powers to review and , if necessary , prohibit those takeovers which may impede or distort competition in the single market . |
| 58 | WHILE the economy has performed its own high-wire act , news reaches me of a circus whose partners have been forced into personal bankruptcy . |
| 59 | Indeed in one practice I visited the patients held a Tupperware party to raise money to ‘ help ’ their practice — believing that fundholding meant that the practitioners had to raise their own funds . |
| 60 | The generosity of the offer had surprised them all and had prompted a whole spate of spontaneous offers . |