Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 2 | Unlike our other two children , our daughter Alicia has given us a few problems with her nightly stirrings . |
| 3 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 4 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 5 | Rugby has given me a life , it 's given me everything . |
| 6 | On and off the pitch United 's decade under the Maxwells has given them a brief but all too short taste of glory . |
| 7 | After nearly two decades of hard work , Robert Cray has earned himself a place alongside the blues aristocracy . |
| 8 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 9 | THE wife of killer Michael Sams has called him a ‘ lying bastard ’ and said she was divorcing him after he revealed the full extent of his crimes . |
| 10 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 11 | Mama , Millie has brought you a present ; they 're currant buns . |
| 12 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
| 13 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 14 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 15 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 16 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 17 | Somehow that reference to Bruges had thrown her a little . |
| 18 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 19 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
| 20 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 21 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 22 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 23 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 24 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 25 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 26 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 28 | Andy had given us a special ticket which was non-transferable , so we sat in the departure lounge disconsolately watching half-empty flights leaving for Heathrow . |
| 29 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 30 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |