Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Now a young man in the prime of his life is dead , and no-one has given us any official advice or information .
2 Well that 's because somebody has told them that bald is ugly , bald is n't ugly , it 's .
3 Stewart is still battling to fully shake off hamstring trouble which has plagued him all season .
4 The visitors were again struck by injury ; a problem which has plagued them all season .
5 This is , as I say , a matter which has given me much concern .
6 Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees .
7 ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’
8 If the word Gruyère on the packet can induce people to buy the product in question ( I have tasted it ; and it seems only fair to say that of its kind it is of a matchless ignobility ) then it becomes clear that it is a too innocent belief in authenticity and the efficacy of the ancient formula which has made us such easy victims of the purveyors of the farmyard-fresh Surrey chicken from the battery house , the mountain-brook trout from the breeding tank , via the deep-freeze , the hedgerow-ripened blackberry pie-filling out of the cardboard box .
9 The point which has struck me most ( in my myopic way ) has been the abrupt disappearance at this level , all over the world , of the atrypid brachiopods .
10 I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life .
11 New industrializing areas attracted migrants from the south to the north ( and to South Wales ) the reverse of ‘ drift to the south ’ which has preoccupied us this century .
12 THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye .
13 ‘ The Brazilian economy is an economy of frights , and mercifully this plan brought no new frights , ’ said Roberto Campos , a former finance minister who has seen it all .
14 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 .
15 But perhaps the most telling comment came from one elderly farmer who has seen it all before .
16 Katherine is a seductive piranha who has got it all : an immaculate haircut , marvellous job , magnificent Manhattan apartment filled with designer clothes , opulent furniture and boyfriend in the background .
17 Who has told you that ? ’
18 She has asked us all , if we can , to stay .
19 She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’
20 She has caused us all , we have come to this — we had a dreadful row , you know . ’
21 But since we took her away from the convent she has worried us both to death .
22 She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation .
23 She has given us all so much love .
24 She has done us many a kindness and fed us every morning . "
25 She has got it all wrong , but then , too , I pooh-pooh her less grandly than I might .
26 And she has been so taken by her findings she has put them all down on paper .
27 Almost as an afterthought , her eyes clouding , she added , ‘ No one has called me that for years . ’
28 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 .
29 He has to wear them all the time , but he does n't wear them all the time
30 He has ignored them all .
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