Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 2 | Miles of Gloucester , who had remained quietly in the background since Isabel had entered the room , now moved forward . |
| 3 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 4 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 5 | As they walked through the lamplight of the Ropewalk , Maxim noticed a small incised plaque to Lord Macaulay , who had lived there in the 1840s . |
| 6 | It turns out , from Flaubert 's travel notes , that the business-card was n't pinned in place by Monsieur Frotteur himself ; it was put there by the lithe and thoughtful Maxime du Camp , who had scampered ahead in the purple night and laid out this little mousetrap for his friend 's sensibility . |
| 7 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 8 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 9 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I wanted to promote someone , I would choose the person who had worked well in the community . ’ |
| 11 | There were minor disturbances in the Amman governorate on Aug. 18 during by-elections for the House of Representatives , called to replace two deputies who had died earlier in the year . |
| 12 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 13 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 14 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 15 | The number of qualified experts who have emerged recently in the field has devalued his influence in the market . |
| 16 | ‘ Slow down your eating ’ is excellent classic advice for those with a weight problem — and many of those who have struggled long in the battle of the bulge have probably read it before , and even tried to follow it . |
| 17 | The unicameral National Assembly , each of whose 90 directly elected members has an alternate representative , is elected for a six-year term by a system of proportional representation ; it also contains those unelected candidates who have received nationally in the presidential and vice-presidential elections votes equivalent at least to the average of the winning percentages in the National Assembly elections in each regional electoral district , currently bringing the total number of representatives to 92 . |
| 18 | Stressing that members " who have come out in the open face a serious risk of arrest and detention " , Aford urged the international community " to sustain diplomatic and moral pressure on the Malawian government to respect human rights " . |
| 19 | This cautionary tale does not seem to have deterred the punters , who have bought copiously in the vintages 1985 ( charming , forward wines ) , 1986 ( a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape , and thus for wines like Latour and Mouton-Rothschild ) and 1988 ( sometimes combining the charm of 1985 with the concentration of 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |
| 21 | Regular customers who have paid promptly in the past often justify a special letter enquiring as to their reasons & or non-payment of the current invoice . |