Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] have [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 2 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 3 | ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there . |
| 4 | He said to me that God had given him a chance to expiate his past life , and that was what he was going to do . |
| 5 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 6 | He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message . |
| 7 | On July 12 Guechi claimed that Madani had given him a mandate to lead the FIS . |
| 8 | Edward could not be typical of his friends , but I remembered that Clive had called him a friend to verse , and that he had read my work . |
| 9 | Police revealed yesterday that Joanna had told them a second man was involved in her disappearance . |
| 10 | Dorothy Best , secretary of Durham County Schools AA , said : ‘ Cumbria and ourselves are staging the county championships on the recommended date but unfortunately Cleveland and Northumberland have held theirs a week earlier . |
| 11 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 12 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 13 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 14 | He is disliked among liberal Serbs but his method of pillaging in Bosnia and Croatia has made him a very rich man and in the fragile economic state of former Yugoslavia , rich men are very powerful . |
| 15 | ‘ And Seb 's ridden him a few times . |
| 16 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 17 | Sally had agonised over what to wear — she was so afraid of letting Paula down — but eventually she had settled on a neat shirt-waister blouse and pencil skirt and Paula had loaned her a poplin duster coat in duck-egg blue with a thick soft grey Lucca Lamb collar . |
| 18 | Miles and Juliet had offered him a lift to Pangbourne Station . |
| 19 | Hull fell apart after Gay and Nolan had given them an early 10–0 lead . |
| 20 | The ‘ modern action ’ of Peruvian politics exacts a heavy price , and Shakespeare has given us a very plausible sense of the people — lovers , priests , guerrillas , soldiers — who have to pay it . |
| 21 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |
| 22 | Kim Ku was no longer of any real importance but Rhee had proved himself a formidable politician ; he had rallied moderate opinion , curbed the exuberance of his more militant supporters , and made conciliatory moves towards the Russians . |
| 23 | Often there would be some drama : Razia , the loudest and most ebullient of Chaman 's chelas would be wringing her hands and weeping because her new boyfriend had gone off to Ajmer or because Chaman had called her a tart or because her pet goat had gone missing ; she always suspected her neighbours were planning to slaughter it . |
| 24 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 25 | After John had given me a thorough brief on the ground , I took-off from Duxford and ten seconds later I was in thick cloud . |
| 26 | For Martin had built himself a handsome new house . |
| 27 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |
| 28 | But the dangers in observation are perhaps implicit in the word , and observation can all too easily become realism , and realism is as Piaget has reminded us a kind of confusion between the inner and the outer — a fixing in the object something which is an activity of the thinking subject . |
| 29 | When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls . |