Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] 's [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 2 | In the first room you entered George 's secretary had kept guard with the assistance of an office junior . |
| 3 | and these and these rents have gone up I expect Nora 's flat has gone up |
| 4 | The League says Swindon 's football has earned them widespread admiration this season and Hoddle is a suitable and exciting choice . |
| 5 | I noticed Southgate 's hand had fallen to the hilt of his rapier . |
| 6 | People noticed Chris 's appearance had deteriorated in recent weeks . |
| 7 | From the perspectives of both professionals and parents the attempt to build a cooperative framework directed towards meeting John 's needs had broken down . |
| 8 | FTCWatch newsletter says FTC 's committee has forwarded its recommendations on the Microsoft Corp investigation to its commissioners . |
| 9 | Queen Elizabeth II accepted the resignation of Ratu Ganilau on Oct. 15 , and ceased to be Fiji 's head of state ( and the Commonwealth heads of government , meeting in Vancouver , Canada , on Oct. 16 declared Fiji 's membership to have lapsed — see pp. 35606-07 ) . |
| 10 | So it would seem that an essential fact which had escaped Lanfranc 's notice had come out in Anselm 's talks with Osbern . |
| 11 | I … hope that you will not attempt to outbid L[loyd] G[eorge] or the Socialists in a vote-catching programme … it is folly to attempt a competition with irresponsible people , and I believe LG 's proposals have given us an opportunity of attacking , instead of defending , ourselves … . |
| 12 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 13 | For Sartre ‘ human history ’ was identified with the history of the West , and it was for this reason that Lévi-Strauss contested Sartre 's claim to have established the human foundation of ‘ a structural , historical anthropology ’ for Marxism . |
| 14 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |
| 15 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 16 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 17 | Smith New Court expects AMI 's profits to have reached £20.5m in the year just ended with £24.5m likely this year . |
| 18 | The local priest Father John Gallagher said Saturday 's slaughter had united rather than divided the community as the killers had intended . |
| 19 | Dr Nanayakkara said Liam 's death had caused him grave concern and he had been eager a specialist children 's pathologist should carry out the post-mortem examination . |
| 20 | But former Czechoslovak President Vaclev Havel said Dubcek 's death had moved him deeply . |
| 21 | He said Spanswick 's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness . |
| 22 | Before he was sentenced , Tony McGeorge , defending , said Clarke 's wife had divorced him and his family had been threatened since the tragedy . |
| 23 | In Sudan President Omar el Bashir 's government has refused to admit to the famine , declaring only a ‘ temporary food gap ’ of 75,000 tonnes . |
| 24 | Graf 's statement said BT 's opponents had tried to impose impossible standards of market reciprocity between the US and UK . |
| 25 | Jamie Hill , defending , said Glorney 's marriage had broken down and his despair manifested itself in him turning to drink and committing offences . |
| 26 | Just before the missile could be launched Akbar 's laser had tickled it to detonate . |
| 27 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |