Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grand presidential title , a large company car and expensive luxury office bring little credit to a status-conscious executive who has achieved no more than a political victory in the rat-race . |
| 2 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 3 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 4 | Amongst the newcomers are Llanelli 's Wayne Proctor and Swansea 's Simon Davies , both wings ( a position short of challengers recently ) , hooker Nigel Meek from Pontypool ( who has made the most of Garin Jenkins ’ move to Swansea ) , second row Paul Kawulok ( another who took the Hall and Griffiths trail from Bridgend to Cardiff ) and two sons of famous fathers , Richard Shaw ( Bridgend ) and Scott Quinnell ( Llanelli ) ; scions of Glyn and Derek respectively . |
| 5 | The manager who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 6 | The manager , who has watched the same side go out of the Scottish Cup to the Premier Division 's bottom club ( Falkirk ) while inflicting all manner of wounds on their championship prospects , saw his players do well enough not to have their efforts diminished by dwelling on Rangers ' inertia . |
| 7 | A passport inside containing the photograph of Eila Karjalainen , a Finnish student who 'd disappeared a few months before as she hitchhiked through Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | To give the poor lad his due , he 's only one of many who 've done the same . |
| 9 | While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors ! |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The Missus ’ was about as inappropriate a soubriquet for Onyx Muggeridge as could be imagined , and Mike Pumfrey , who had heard a few scraps about her already , registered this . |
| 12 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 13 | A woman who had made the most of what she 'd got , and done her best to be content . |
| 14 | Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents . |
| 15 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 16 | Winter and Smith , who had faced the same manslaughter charge and a joint arson charge , were cleared on Tuesday . |
| 17 | The play , written by André Birabeau and set in the Paris of 1919 , brought praise for the performances of Crawford and his co-star , nineteen-year-old Sarah Long , who had played the same role a year earlier when a different production was staged in Brighton and London . |
| 18 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 19 | Turtle , venison and turbot are named among the good things — provided mainly , it seems , by Joseph Cradock , who had done the same for the LNU at its opening at Harborough in 1809 . |
| 20 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 21 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
| 22 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |
| 23 | Eleven-year-old Tildey Lockyer from Liphook proved her superior skills when handling golden retriever Toby , and in the gundog class , Chris Melling beat his father , who had entered the same class with the same dog ! |
| 24 | He was quoting Aristotle , who had drawn the same conclusion three centuries before , and Plato 's view of the poet as one possessed by a ‘ divine madness ’ . |
| 25 | Then they needed the special consolation or encouragement of the substitute family at Howard ; the camaraderie of the other single girls , or the understanding of families who had shared the same kind of sadness . |
| 26 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 27 | This feeling was shared by his Prussian and Habsburg colleagues , who had cherished the same hopes . |
| 28 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 29 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 30 | The Vietnamese , who have kept a few items of sunken treasure for a museum in Hanoi , but sent most of it for auction in the West , pronounced themselves well satisfied . |