Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [conj] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He looked back from their struggle to see that Duvall had stepped forward . |
| 2 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |
| 3 | Both suggestions caused right-wing critics of the US administration to claim that Baker had made unnecessary concessions ; Richard Perle , former Assistant Defence Secretary under President Reagan , commented that " we are strong , and just at the moment when we are strong , we are making concessions " , and he warned : " Any American official making concessions to the Soviets today has to explain himself . " |
| 4 | In June 1990 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , a leading government claimant , had established a special task force to investigate whether Drexel had contributed to the failure of any of the savings and loans institutions ( " thrifts " ) which had been big customers of the bank . |
| 5 | He opened his mouth to speak but Carrie had turned . |
| 6 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 7 | It seemed churlish at this point to mention that Eitzel had come all the way from San Francisco and is one of the greatest songwriters humanity has ever known . |
| 8 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |
| 9 | Hua 's reluctance to admit that Mao had made mistakes contrasted with Deng 's hints regarding the fallibility of the former supreme leader . |
| 10 | Commercial owner-occupiers and tenants on conventional 25-year , full repairing and insuring leases will have a right to feel that life has dealt them an unfair hand in the wake of the new threat . |
| 11 | This means that instead of requiring the plaintiff to show that copying had taken place , the defendant will have to show that he did not , in fact , copy the plaintiff 's work and such a shift in the burden of proof can be exceedingly onerous to the defendant . |
| 12 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's absolute nonsense to suggest that Darlington has become a commuter town as Mr Milburn has said . |
| 14 | Oh she rang me did , ah well , you see , Joan rang last night to say that Reg had asked us to go to see the daffodils . |
| 15 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 16 | Likewise if the authority to allot and issue has expired or is insufficient a further ordinary resolution of the shareholders will be needed . |
| 17 | According to Working Together , para 6.18 " legal representation is not appropriate " as the conference is not a tribunal to decide whether abuse has occurred . |
| 18 | Not even a movement to show that fitzAlan had heard her fierce protest . |
| 19 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 20 | Sutherland had said that he was the owner of the house and had received a phone call to say that youngsters had broken in and were vandalising it . |
| 21 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 22 | I have every reason to believe that authorities have made use of these powers . |
| 23 | To consider the issue in greater detail , the only circumstance under which his omission to treat his patient further could render him guilty of manslaughter is where he has failed to act in a situation where the criminal law imposes on him a duty to act and death has ensued . |
| 24 | He saw no reason to explain that Buckmaster had emphasized he wanted Morgan to supervise the whole Tweed operation personally . |
| 25 | The tabloid newspapers decided it was their duty to reveal that Gatting had invited a barmaid to his hotel room during the Test match , and that he and other players had taken part in ‘ sex romps ’ with girls from the hotel ; though how the newshounds , scrabbling around in the bushes outside , could see what was happening in the rooms was not really clear . |
| 26 | And the terrible moment when he heard the sound of officious voices calling to the driver to stop and Craig had taken his chance and leaped from the back of the van and disappeared into the dark streets of World 's End . |
| 27 | In June 1989 a team of investigators from the FBI moved into the Rocky Flats nuclear plant near Denver , Colorado , in order to determine whether employees had falsified clean air documents . |
| 28 | The ability to sing and dance has become increasingly important in the profession nowadays , and there are few actors who do n't possess some musical and dance skills . |
| 29 | Newfoundlanders were mortified on the very day of their 40th anniversary to learn that Ottawa had agreed that France could fish an extra 11000 tonnes of cod from these east coast waters . |
| 30 | It is a wonderful comfort to know that Jesus has entered into our dying and will deliver us from it . |