Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Secret Garden Mary has been watching a robin which has let her come quite near . |
| 2 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 3 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 4 | Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction . |
| 5 | ‘ As you all know , ’ she said , ‘ ever since the Pack was formed we 've held our meetings in this fine old barn , which Farmer Maynard has let us have for our own use . |
| 6 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I cross that bridge quite often and I am surprised the county council has let it go so far . |
| 8 | With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest . |
| 9 | Hampshire thereby completed a remarkable run in this competition , which has seen them win groups 4 to 1 in successive years . |
| 10 | PARTICK THISTLE take on Hibs at Firhill tonight in the throes of a long , destructive run which has seen them win only one of their last 12 league matches and slip towards relegation , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 11 | The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season . |
| 12 | The phenomenal success of computer games in recent years has seen them become the most popular pastime of hundreds of thousands of children . |
| 13 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 14 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 15 | Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances . |
| 16 | Mr Major 's appetite for leaving the country 's problems behind has seen him visit Rio de Janeiro , Bogota and Washington . |
| 17 | AMERICAN Fred Couples is near to completing a scintillating year on the world golf tour which has seen him win close to £1m . |
| 18 | This is very much a product of his legal background which , in a career spanning 40 years as a lawyer , has seen him spurn a more lucrative profession to concentrate on the injusticesthat accompany bureaucracies like the Civil Service . |
| 19 | And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches . |
| 20 | David O'Leary ( although I gather noone in Leeds has seen him play ) |
| 21 | In fact , though one has seen him play Augusta in an admirable 67 , even Jack Nicklaus had trouble convincing him that he had the game to win the US Masters and he never did . |
| 22 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 23 | He lost his mother and has seen it happen , so to be away from his father would be impossible . |
| 24 | He has seen it happen . |
| 25 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 26 | Iain feels the effects of the alcohol drunk with the meal but it has made him feel good , giving him a sense — true or not — that he can cope , that he can deal with the way his own mind and from there be able to deal with other people 's . |
| 27 | Hindley has made him become a poor , dull farm worker . |
| 28 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 29 | I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be . |
| 30 | All this involvement has led people to question their abilities and outlook on their jobs and has made them see that they are capable of doing things ( with a little training and encouragement ) they never dreamed possible a few months ago . |