Example sentences of "have [verb] the former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 2 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 3 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 4 | Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation . |
| 5 | BLUE Circle Properties , the property management subsidiary of Blue Circle Industries , has sold the former headquarters of Birmid Qualcast to the West Midlands Fire Service for £1.75m . |
| 6 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 7 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 8 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 9 | Sinton 's classy effort against Tottenham on Saturday , despite Rangers ' 2–1 defeat , will have given the former Brentford winger plenty of confidence . |
| 10 | A genuine working class origin must have impressed the former Viscount Stansgate . |
| 11 | The authority of the Minister of Health ( the new Ministry having succeeded the former Local Government Board ) was no longer required for the preparation of a scheme ; instead , all that was necessary was the resolution of a local council . |
| 12 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 13 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 14 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 15 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 16 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 17 | His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church . |
| 18 | Considerable speculation exists as to the possible location of a new permanent site for the Modern Collection and suggestions so far have included the former Battersea and Bankside power stations on the south bank of the Thames and Canary Wharf in Docklands . |
| 19 | ABC TV have signed the former cocaine addict to play the 16-year-old girl in Beyond Control : The Amy Fisher Story . |