Example sentences of "the [noun] have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 2 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 3 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
| 4 | Of the quarter bequeathed property , the majority has sold it or expected to do so . |
| 5 | If you do your searches during the evening when the crowds have departed you will be able to sweep the head of your detector over the very spots where people dropped their cash . |
| 6 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 7 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 8 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 9 | Item — the Prince had claimed he had no involvement in Lady Eleanor 's death but both he and his favourite appeared nervous . |
| 10 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 11 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 12 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 13 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 14 | And presumably whatever it was the GP had give him has had tha , upset that thrombosis again . |
| 15 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 16 | It was a brief letter from an address in Chelsea , telling him that the writer had heard he was looking for a sibling , affirming that the writer of the letter was probably that person , and suggesting a meeting . |
| 17 | Another difficulty with the idea of the novel as an intentional act of communication is that until the writer has completed it he does n't know what it is that he is communicating , and perhaps does n't know even then . |
| 18 | It uses plain words to their fullest effect so that we are stunned by how much the writer has enabled them to mean . |
| 19 | The reader for his part is drawn into the discourse role that the writer has cast him in ( for further discussion see Widdowson 1979 : Paper 13 ; 1984a : Section 2 ) . |
| 20 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 21 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 22 | A slight wisp of smoke came from the back of the man 's hair where the flames had scorched him . |
| 23 | He glanced at Colebrooke and realised the lieutenant had told them little of his own movements . |
| 24 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 25 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 26 | The board have agreed it ; maybe Batty has n't . |
| 27 | even though you put that on your form A and the Board have signed it . |
| 28 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 29 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 30 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |