Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 At three o'clock that afternoon , the intimacy between them had almost completely disintegrated .
2 Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs .
3 Guenter Emig , the head of the commission , said the athletes were free to compete again , as the case against them had not been proved to the extent necessary for the suspension to be upheld .
4 The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity .
5 Weeks later , when the mourning for her had already begun , chimpanzees were heard calling near the village .
6 those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ;
7 The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years .
8 If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue .
9 Presumably the man expected him to add , in the section of the proposal form where you were supposed to talk about your passion for hang-gliding or free-fall parachute jumping , a brief paragraph along the lines of I HAVE ALSO BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY AN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST .
10 She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged .
11 The point of the episode , so far as we were concerned , was that the truth of it has never been established .
12 She drew me close and comforted me as I mourned my child and the bond between us had never been stronger .
13 How , to start with , do they know that they have reached part of the sea where the water below them has suddenly become very much deeper ?
14 Floy said , very carefully , ‘ Could you show us the route ? ’ and Fenella looked up , as if , thought Caspar , she had heard something in Floy 's voice that the rest of them had not heard .
15 The fair-weather hikers have hung up their boots and retreated indoors and the rest of us have even more of the countryside to ourselves .
16 Before Midnight had a chance to reply , Salt said sharply : ‘ He may not have aught to do , but the rest of us have n't time to stand gossiping . ’
17 Is it not possible that these few exceptional individuals are , in fact , the normal ones and the rest of us have somewhere deviated from this path of health ?
18 On the other hand , the rest of us have yet to realise that computer literacy will soon be as essential as driving a car .
19 He certainly spoke his mind : ‘ Among you Girls , one is a star but from the dancing I 've seen , the rest of you had better get back to your washtubs . ‘
20 Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall .
21 Modern historians have for long assumed this rise , and stressed its importance ; and yet its nature and the evidence for it have never been properly analysed .
22 According to documents consigned by Sonnabend to the Supreme Court on 13 May , Halley had already agreed to hold a one-man show with them last May and all the works in it had already been sold to Sonnabend clients , as Halley well knew .
23 The turmoil inside her had not by any means subsided and she put her hand to her lips , testing the surface carefully .
24 And we must avoid dismissing a particular policy wholesale simply because the pretence of it has sometimes been used to justify iniquity .
25 And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well .
26 The pair of them had just quietly fossilised together .
27 The pair of them had probably not been having an affair for long — only perhaps after Kemp 's long infatuation with the semi-permanently sozzled Sheila had begun to wear off .
28 So the pair of them have probably been mulling over all the old grievances — in their minds , if not openly . ’
29 The atmosphere between them had suddenly become frosty .
30 I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him .
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