Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the history " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first day also gave us the sight of an England captain losing the toss on his birthday , the first time this has happened in the history of Test cricket . |
| 2 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 3 | Spike , the most forceful and ambitious black director to have emerged in the history of American cinema , went on to make ‘ Do The Right Thing ’ , which grossed $28 million in America in 1989 . |
| 4 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 5 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 6 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 7 | For a long time he had wondered about the history of this little family , now it looked as though he was going to find out . |
| 8 | It can also help to emphasize to the counsellees the value and significance of their lives , and the part they have played in the history of their times . |
| 9 | But these considerations , which are no fault of the present author 's , should not be allowed to diminish pleasure in and admiration for the parts of her book under review that have to do with the history of ideas . |
| 10 | Clearly a number of factors that have to do with the history of English ( chiefly the reported merger of meat/mate in the sixteenth century ) , with patterns of language maintenance , and with phonological theory and description , have also motivated the choice of this variable , and we shall return to these in chapter 5 . |
| 11 | ‘ In a month , I could teach the Americans more than they have learned in the history of their game . ’ |