Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held . |
| 2 | As a gift to the family , Wimpey Homes has given them some furniture to help make their new house feel more like home . |
| 3 | As well as equerry , the hierarchy of the French royal stables has given us another , more common title — that of the constable . |
| 4 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 5 | In our competition , sponsored by independent accountants Scott-Moncrieff Thomson & Shiells , readers had to make their own judgment on 12 elements of the Budget , ranging from income tax thresholds to VAT , excise duties and public borrowing . |
| 6 | The boy 's eyes had met his own , and for a moment Pavel had been afraid ; but the boy had n't said anything , and after a moment he 'd looked away . |
| 7 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 8 | We realised that only two cars had passed us all morning . |
| 9 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 10 | Pogo 's production is expansive and clear , especially on the slower , more serious ‘ Bad Person ’ , and the rappers have devised their own slang , too , so repeated listening is encouraged . |
| 11 | Both characteristics have inhibited their own effects on psychology . |
| 12 | But all provinces have developed their own list of core servies and many are now de-insuring specialties such as cosmetic surgery in a bid to constrain the growth rate of health budgets . |
| 13 | The H2-antagonists have had their own complications . |
| 14 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 15 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 16 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 17 | The secretaries have got it this time , and we are just left at the bottom of the ladder again . |
| 18 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 19 | Non-believers have created their own ‘ Green ’ sects which argue for negative economic growth . |
| 20 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 21 | In a field which is continually changing , the trainers have to keep their own interpreting skills up to date and their knowledge of the services in which they are training students to work and continually improve their understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processes which underpin those skills . |
| 22 | But perhaps the royal sisters-in-law have done us all a favour by chipping away at these hypocritical accolades . |
| 23 | Each of these gangs have got their own territory . |
| 24 | The message behind the report is that the majority of parents has got it all wrong . |
| 25 | My experience with organizations of all kinds in many different countries has convinced me that effective value-adding managerial leadership of subordinates can come only from an individual one category higher in cognitive capacity , working one category higher in problem complexity . |
| 26 | He rejected the argument that the defendants had done something more by refraining from setting up certain answers to the claim permitted by the Dubai law ; as a matter of policy it was never their intention to do so and ‘ It is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue ; see Cook v. Wright ( 1861 ) 1 B. & ss. 559 , 589 , ( above , p. 214 ) . ’ |
| 27 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 28 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 29 | Initial funding had come from local businessmen and delegates — mostly businessmen themselves — from a dozen countries had paid their own air fares and hotel bills . |
| 30 | But if that was n't a second smokescreen settling on Oxendown House as fast as possible after Charlie 's Indians had withdrawn their own , then I do n't know smoke signals when I smell them . |