Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1983 , Stephen Marks ' French Connection fashion group has given its shareholders a roller-coaster ride . |
| 2 | It has given its owners a greater degree of mobility than they hitherto possessed but the social and environmental cost has been considerable . |
| 3 | But public sector trade union experience of previous administrations has given their leaders a taste of political power without responsibility ( 1986 : 82 , 89 ) . |
| 4 | Streicher has abandoned the softness of the other Viennese instruments , with their too delicate touch and bouncing rolling action , and on Beethoven 's advice and request has given his instruments a more resisting touch … so that the virtuoso … has more control … in the striking and releasing . |
| 5 | Some local people say the fear of such crashes and the noise of the squadron 's manoeuvres has made their lives a misery . |
| 6 | I can smell the faggy smell even when he has brushed his teeth a couple of time and rinsed with mouthwash ’ ) and drinking ( ‘ If my husband has been drinking I do n't like to kiss him because he has stale breath ’ ) . |
| 7 | And the tall central defender , one of three survivors from the famous treble winning team of 1988–89 , has set his colleagues a remarkable target if the League pennant is to flutter over Brandywell next season . |
| 8 | For example , in order for Ukraine to get hold of Scythian gold , the republic not only has to declare its citizens the direct descendents of the Scythians , but also to prove that the remarkable Scythian objects at present held in the Hermitage were made by natives and not by itinerant ancient Greek craftsmen . |
| 9 | " We want to look our very best — which should n't be a real problem as we 're so gorgeous — but we 've just had to change our clothes a couple of times . |
| 10 | In ‘ Understanding Labels ’ , for instance , an article in the ALBSU ( Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit ) Newsletter , it is pointed out that many of the subjects questioned about their ‘ reading ’ of a label on a bottle of pills would have given their children the wrong dosage as a direct result of the interpretation of the layout of the instructions . |
| 11 | But by expressing his views in this way , Scott must have given his clients a clear indication of the type of building he wanted to build . |
| 12 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 13 | If he , or anyone else , had had the courtesy to inform me , he could have saved our members a lot of hard work . |
| 14 | St Paul , as a devout Jewish man , would have said his prayers every morning . |
| 15 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 16 | The Council may also try to draw up a science policy for Europe , if it is serious about this it will have to soil its hands a little more with the sharp end of applied research . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 18 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 19 | They should have published their reports a year ago . |
| 20 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |
| 21 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 22 | When granting the abbey of Holyrood a foundation charter , David I had given its canons the right to build and profit from a burgh of their own , in what has since become the Canongate . |
| 23 | The sudden surge of enthusiasm which had given his words a clipped speed subsided , and he turned toward the door . |
| 24 | But she had lifted her skirts a full six inches above the ground as she entered the water , and he was captivated . |
| 25 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 26 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 27 | Auguste had granted his pupils a half-hour respite in which to change into their enforced Dickensian dress , and was now confronted with all six apparently sharing some enormous joke . |
| 28 | We 've got our hands a bit full with things . ’ |
| 29 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 30 | The MacIans had meant their oaths no more than the Macleans . |