Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 2 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 3 | The home , in Portsmouth , Hants , has been bought by restaurateur Lim Walters who has named his eatery The Mayfair . |
| 4 | He has made his firm the IBM of the 1990s . |
| 5 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 6 | Ten years later , in 1935 , the year of McDougall 's retirement another attempt at explanation was made in that year 's annual report : In view of the fact that there appears to be a feeling in some quarters that the British Deaf and Dumb Association has outlived its usefulness the executive committee desires to make the position clear by the following statement : The British Deaf and Dumb Association is the oldest National Organisation for the Deaf in the country . |
| 7 | " Providence has denied his country the privilege of decking his youthful brow with the chaplets which belong to the sons of victory and of fame , but his deeds can never die . |
| 8 | I 'd broken my heel the week before whilst soloing at Pex Hill ! |
| 9 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 10 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 11 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 12 | Without wasting time , she managed to close the door , having noticed that he 'd removed his foot the minute he 'd become a little uncomfortable . |
| 13 | I went to the kitchen for something to eat but I 'd finished my food the night before and he had n't given me any more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’ |
| 16 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 17 | She could have bitten her tongue the moment the words left her mouth . |
| 18 | Opposite him Langford made some thundering tackles but then blotted his copybook with a stupid kick which , but for Underwood 's timely intervention , might have cost his side the match . |
| 19 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 20 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 21 | Having lost her mother the moment she was born , the baby needed a nursemaid , so Patrick Milligan had hired the rat-faced Mrs MacDonagh who lived opposite . |
| 22 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 24 | Gloucester 's possession of the northern Neville lands meant that if Edward had withdrawn his favour the duke 's power would have been much reduced , but he would still have had a following . |
| 25 | Gloucester 's possession of the northern Neville lands meant that if Edward had withdrawn his favour the duke 's power would have been much reduced , but he would still have had a following . |
| 26 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |
| 27 | And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon . |
| 28 | Two-Dogs had not always been a whisky Navaho , and he had taught his son the stories his father had taught to him . |
| 29 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 30 | By the time Carrie had completed her task the wind had increased in strength from the north and a fierce blizzard was setting in . |