Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Wise had moved in next door a month ago . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 3 | Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury . |
| 4 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 5 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |
| 6 | Bohunt have moved into second place in the division , but are 65 points behind Grange ‘ A ’ with two matches each to play . |
| 7 | Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France . |
| 8 | Fergie enthused : ‘ Peter has IMPROVED from last season . |
| 9 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 10 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 11 | IN WHAT is becoming a very fast ride across the wastes of the Southern Ocean , Lawrie Smith 's Rothmans has moved into second place in the Whitbread Round the World Race . |
| 12 | Lawrie Smith 's Rothmans has moved into second place in the Whitbread Round the World Race . |
| 13 | Rolls-Royce has risen from 14th to fourth ; our participants rated it Britain 's most innovative firm , and the one with the highest-quality products . |
| 14 | It was a double blow for the courageous Welshman , with he and partner Mark Mouland having to settle for third place in the team event , which was won by America after Fred Couples and Davis Love both birdied the final hole to beat Sweden by one stroke . |
| 15 | Peirson had resigned on 1st February 1651 , and there were two candidates for the post , William Duncan and Thomas Coombes . |
| 16 | Wachter had to settle for third place in the race after Italy 's Deborah Compagnoni produced one of her best performances of the season . |
| 17 | Torquay has moved into second spot , with Bournemouth sliding from runner-up in 1991 to sixth this year . |
| 18 | Mrs Beavis had gone at last . |
| 19 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 20 | Maslyukov had served as First Deputy Premier and chair of Gosplan , and briefly as acting Prime Minister after Nikolai Ryzhkov was incapacitated by a heart attack in late December . |
| 21 | In fact , Silverstone had sunk to ninth or tenth in the world league table , which is why improvements are necessary . |
| 22 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |