Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 2 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not presume to counsel my sovereign on the choice of her advisers , ’ he once grandly told a journalist who had rashly asked him how he was going to vote in a parliamentary election . |
| 4 | Every secretary whose word processor refuses to talk to its printer , every technologically-challenged hotel receptionist , every journalist who has ever seen his scoop disappear forever through the hole in the ozone layer can walk a little taller . |
| 5 | ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes . |
| 6 | It relates to the chef who has just left you . |
| 7 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 8 | Lamont turned out to be an egotistical womaniser who had selfishly kept his marriage of twenty years intact ; Porter , a woman of integrity , now on her fourth marriage and deeply fond of both her disturbed children . |
| 9 | This particular lie is engineered to create the impression of a finely-honed athlete who has temporarily lost his edge , which is a little less than the complete truth . |
| 10 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 11 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 12 | For example , a well-ordered lady who had always prepared her husband 's evening meal , was given the task of laying ( and relaying ) the tea tables to help with her restlessness at that time of day ( Marshall , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 14 | ‘ What nonsense , Jane , rushing off to visit an old lady who has never loved you ! |
| 15 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 16 | It could be achievement of a young child who has just made something . |
| 17 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 18 | But she only saw the girl who had now returned her full attention to the case . |
| 19 | He knew , instantly ; his gaze went to the girl who had so intrigued him and he was only amazed he had not seen it right away . |
| 20 | In some cases , a Zuwayi who had unwittingly offended someone would constrain that person to forgive him by offering compensation and sacrificing animals to him . |
| 21 | To this end , an SPR may only be passed on 6 times and can not be passed to a user who has previously held it . |
| 22 | Kylie , by now Neighbours most popular character , teamed up with her younger sister who had now established herself as a star on a TV series Young Talent Time . |
| 23 | Oh who 's that geezer who 's just started who used to paint , can' think of the pop artist , Andy |
| 24 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 25 | Inside , sits a diminutive man with a grey beard who has just celebrated his 90th birthday . |
| 26 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 27 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 28 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 29 | The other writer who has deeply interested me is Jan Struther , the Mrs Miniver of the Second World War . |
| 30 | It came as no surprise in 1990 when Charlie Nicholas 's name was once again associated with a Celtic team who had just experienced their worst season for years . |