Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maud Bailey went on : ‘ I 've checked my card index — I 'm working on a full-length study of Melusina I 've only found one reference to Ash . |
| 2 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 3 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 4 | Because of Frankie she had graciously rejected the opportunity of a lifetime . |
| 5 | Peter announces the Resurrection at the house of Cornelius who had earlier said to Jesus ‘ Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof ’ . |
| 6 | If that is n't a description of Gemma I have yet to find a better . |
| 7 | So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find . |
| 8 | A French tourist visiting England Locke 's case seems to be that the moment he steps on the territory of England he has tacitly agreed erm to obey the laws and in return erm of course he receives the protection of those laws . |
| 9 | The nicest looking edition of Dominic I 've ever seen |
| 10 | IF THERE IS IN THE north of England a more beautiful walk than the tour of the glens and waterfalls of Ingleton I have yet to discover it . |
| 11 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 12 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 13 | It was a side of Graham she had never seen before . |
| 14 | The authors argued that the huge cultural wealth of China which had once made it such a powerful nation had become a massive psychological burden , weighing the people down , oppressing and stifling free thought . |
| 15 | However , the party leader of the southwestern region was Piatakov , the Ukrainian-born collaborator of Bukharin who had consistently opposed the Party position on national self-determination . |
| 16 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |
| 17 | Boutros Ghali 's fluency in French , acquired as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris , was decisive in winning him the support of France which had reportedly threatened to veto a non-French-speaking candidate . |
| 18 | Pauline Quinn of Ballymena and Antrim took the women 's race from Jill Bruce of Dromore who had earlier taken the 1500 . |
| 19 | He said that Serbs in the Croatian enclave of Krajina who had earlier boycotted such negotiations had now agreed to the new talks . |
| 20 | At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us . |
| 21 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 22 | Erm , and in the faith and life department of URC we 'd better preparing a pack on the children rights . |