Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 2 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 3 | At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ? |
| 4 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
| 5 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 6 | The directorate of Collections and Preservation has recently collaborated with Professor Kevin Kiernan of the University of Kentucky , to produce digitally enhanced images of the Beowulf manuscript and hence the answers to some mysteries which have long perplexed Beowulf scholars . |
| 7 | In some areas they have actually added to housing stress by contributing to gentrification , while areas with great social need or high levels of rented accommodation have sometimes been excluded ( Lansley 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 9 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 10 | But because of increasing restrictions over the past few years we have now bought a rack to carry the bikes on the back of a car . |
| 11 | For the last few years they had only discussed their respective businesses and he had listened to his father 's bitter complaints about hunt saboteurs . |
| 12 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 13 | Over the last few years I have actively participated in various Black women 's activities . |
| 14 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 15 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 16 | I shall attempt to establish the general outlines of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy by examining in detail the work of some writers who have explicitly addressed themselves to questions of literacy and its cognitive consequences . |
| 17 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 18 | On a brief evening stroll Maxim had also noticed a few tourists who had clearly solved the problem of eating whilst asleep ; it is an oddity of American that only tourists are truly fat never the locals . |
| 19 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 20 | Some women who have always had a career only get to think about the need for closer relationships after that finishes . |
| 21 | Meanwhile ( as in his treatment of Westermarck in 1926 ) , Eliot began to dismiss some anthropologists who had earlier interested him . |
| 22 | Some MPs who had previously voted for the Exclusion Bill turned Jacobite , amongst them Sir William Whitlock ( a former member of the Green Ribbon Club ) and Edward Harvey ( though in the process they also became High Tories ) . |
| 23 | She wondered how many other such eagles she had blindly passed . |
| 24 | Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced . |
| 25 | Such viewpoints I have since found elaborated in Brereton ( 1944 ) who records , almost as an educational ‘ law ’ , that : ‘ the standard of an examination adjusts itself to the standard of those taking it ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 26 | Sometimes these blokes they have just to commit one particular error , resulting in a action like that . |
| 27 | AU these rules she had already broken tonight . |
| 28 | So in these trays you 've actually got erm quite a variety of of material . |
| 29 | A rather unusual lecture , because in devising these lectures we 've actually worked with local school teachers in working out what we can say to these thirteen to fourteen year old kids , because of course in university circles usually one 's dealing with pupils , students , eighteen , nineteen , twenty and post-graduates . |
| 30 | The message was bluntly stated by the Times Educational Supplement : ‘ In these columns we have repeatedly declared that the new franchise and the new education are supplementary things . |