Example sentences of "have [verb] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever we are supposed to understand by a ‘ person ’ we are to believe that educating him will not be directly related to the roles and tasks he has to perform after his education is over . |
| 2 | The unsigned letter was the first to attack Roy in this way among the 6,000 he has received since his cancer was diagnosed in March . |
| 3 | He may find the home which he has regarded as his Englishman 's castle invaded , occupied or even demolished about his ears . |
| 4 | Again , observing the conversation of a rainy night in July 1763 , Boswell wrote of Johnson 's perceivable affections , ‘ He no doubt had an early attachment to the House of Stuart ; but his zeal has cooled as his reason strengthened … |
| 5 | One , who had an electric prod inserted in her vagina , has disappeared since their release and it is feared that she has committed suicide . |
| 6 | Can you spell out how our share of the cost has increased because our share of the work has increased because I thought presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries . |
| 7 | Okay , can you spell out how our share of the cost has increased because our share of the work has increase . |
| 8 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 9 | The art history programme has taken as its theme ‘ What has art history become as a cultural practice , and how ? ’ |
| 10 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 11 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 12 | These retrospective criticisms of Cockburn and Dearlove are largely based on evidence which has accumulated since their books were written . |
| 13 | And Sacha says his marriage has survived because his wife has no time for the hype . |
| 14 | The new association has 30 members and has elected as its president Maris Ozolins , whose company Vaga is contracted with Macmillan to produce ELT material . |
| 15 | The art of shadow projection has evolved because our eyes work by recognising differences of lighting levels . |
| 16 | Well , I mean , I think , er from , I mean certainly I do n't know how you feel chairman , but my view of this has changed if what Mr says is correct , then it seems that this seems , that this is the , the basic sort of day to day decision making erm , group , erm , and far more central to the purposes of W R A D than previously appeared , and there would seem to me therefore to be some case of paying an attendance allowance or else erm , deferring the decision erm , until we have even more information , but I think , if it really is the , the , the sort of decision making bit then attendance allowance ought to be paid . |
| 17 | Rocastle , whose career has nose-dived since his £2 million move to Leeds from Arsenal in the summer , struck his first competitive goal for the Yorkshiremen after only 11 minutes — and it was enough to settle a disappointing clash . |
| 18 | Upon regaining consciousness , he 'd panicked when his limbs , leaden and numb , had refused to obey him . |
| 19 | After murmuring words of consolation , I asked her how she 'd felt when her husband gave up being a butcher and devoted his life to carving the gods . |
| 20 | ‘ Technically , it 's one of the most difficult things I 've had to do because his music is based on repeating rhythms that lock together to create composite melodies . |
| 21 | I 'm a keen walker but have had to stop since my son was born . |
| 22 | ‘ She 'd have heard if our plane had crashed . |
| 23 | You 'll have to wait while our Corrinne gets paid now . |
| 24 | No it were Monday when in here cos I was oh I were , Gavin were wanting some toast with jam on and I 'd only got a little bit like that , I says oh you 'll have to wait while your Aunty Margaret brings some more tomorrow . |
| 25 | He will have won because his vision offered more hope to American voters than four more years of George Bush in charge . |
| 26 | Mr Major would have resigned because his Government could not attract the support of a parliamentary majority . |
| 27 | The illusion persisted that the British might have succeeded if their diplomacy had been more sensitive and subtle , and if Macmillan himself had been more alive to the timing of the presidential election . |
| 28 | At least it might have done if its launch had n't been followed two days later by the scandalous sentencing of drink-driver Christopher Hart . |
| 29 | ‘ Bissell told me what he should have done when his hands began to be absorbed in the floor . |
| 30 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |