Example sentences of "[coord] have [be] [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young designer plans to go to fashion college , and has been busy choreographing her own charity fashion shows in the meantime . |
| 2 | The army , which had overthrown the government of President Ramsewak Shankar in December 1990 [ see pp. 37912-13 ] , apparently perceived the SLA as the greater threat and had been keen to isolate it . |
| 3 | They had showered her with congratulations , and had been pleased to serve her . |
| 4 | Fortunately she 'd found herself within reach of the small hall table which held the telephone and had been able to ring her neighbour . |
| 5 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 6 | This first example illustrates an impulsive overdose taken by a woman who had experienced a recent loss and had been unable to discuss her problems with her family . |
| 7 | But she was left with a deep sense of hurt over her friend 's behaviour and had been unable to trust anyone since then . |
| 8 | Lucy could , and had been unable to meet her aunt 's eye while stifling a strong desire to giggle . |
| 9 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 10 | The consortium has huge contracts with British Coal and ScottishPower but has been unable to fulfil them . ’ |
| 11 | English Nature has been opposed to peat extraction but has been powerless to prevent it . |
| 12 | ‘ What are you waiting for ? ’ hissed Cardiff , tearing the tie loose from his collar , realising that he still had the automatic in his other hand but had been unable to use it again . |
| 13 | He still had relatives in Newcastle , but had been unable to visit them because he believed he would be arrested . |
| 14 | She wondered if perhaps Time was behaving properly and that Johnny had visited the cottage , prowling through the rooms , as she found herself doing often enough , but had been unable to reach her . |
| 15 | Paul Lexington Productions had been able to mount The Hooded Owl at Taunton , but had been unable to bring it into town without Bobby Anscombe 's support . |
| 16 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 17 | This company had purchased two new middle-water vessels , the Ben Loyal and Ben Roy but had been unable to make them pay and was obliged to sell them in May 1980 . |
| 18 | The United States feels that it is shouldering too heavy a defence burden in Europe , whilst Europe has increasingly become an economic rival of the United States ; Europeans resent their separate defence and economic dependence on the United States , but have been slow to recognize their de facto commitment to an unrealistic and arbitrary divide between economic and strategic policies . |
| 19 | If you have earned pension rights in past employments but have been unable to claim your entitlements because you have lost touch with your pension scheme , then the Occupational Pensions Board 's pensions tracing service could provide the missing link . |
| 20 | The All Blacks assembled yesterday for a rugged training session but have been unable to prepare themselves fully as the Lions have delayed selection for another 24-hours due to ever increasing injury problems . |
| 21 | An angry managing director of the computer magazine told The Guardian newspaper in November 1982 , ‘ we are suing Mr Kahn for £18,000 in cash , but have been unable to contact him ’ . |