Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough .
2 ICI has developed it at Billingham , and it will eliminate the need to dump waste from the manufacture of perspex into the River Tees and the North sea — one year ahead of schedule , too .
3 He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ .
4 Gerald has rung me from East Sheen .
5 That 's what Tod has brought us to .
6 And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) .
7 Frances has joined me from Harrow .
8 Even that buttock-licker Pybus seems worried that Pahdra Singh has replaced them with his shifty brothers but , as I told Crowe , having a property developer , an estate agent and a supermarket magnate on the board can only be good for the club .
9 ‘ Oh , my brother Stair — I am sure that Matey has told you about Stair — invited me out tonight to the stag party of one of his friends ; I used to know him slightly .
10 David has rung me from Pinner .
11 As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton .
12 Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October .
13 Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties
14 Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’
15 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible .
16 The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears .
17 Nellie had put him to bed thinking it was a cold , then hearing of the scarlet fever in Newry through Tommy Drennan , she sent for Dr Nolan at once .
18 Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old .
19 She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint .
20 Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details .
21 After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike .
22 Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award .
23 From what Neil had told me over supper last night , I knew that the main bird colonies were on the western side of the island , where the cliffy coastline was cut into deep gullies , some of them sheer , and some filled with tumbles of massed boulders .
24 Something Neil had told me about the island .
25 Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands .
26 Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army .
27 Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign .
28 Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies .
29 Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day .
30 Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing .
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