Example sentences of "and the [noun] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where am I ? — she drifted soft-footed down the corridor to the breakfast room and the balcony she 'd seen but never really looked at . |
| 2 | Beyond town , beyond the extraordinary cemetery for the pioneers who had created the place and the Indians who had tried to frustrate them , and once the shanties had petered out , the Patagonian landscape was flat and treeless and the gale howled across it without ceasing . |
| 3 | And the knowledge I 'd betrayed all I believe in to have you ? ’ |
| 4 | Give me friends every time — and the friends we 've got may be few , but they 're jolly good ones , ’ said Breeze . |
| 5 | She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood . |
| 6 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 7 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 8 | Ever since he had heard about Maisie and the headmaster they had risen in swarms , like rats leaving a sewer . |
| 9 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
| 10 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 11 | It had been pawned with a discreet firm and the person who had pawned it was her brother Giorgio . |
| 12 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 13 | The person to whom the income is payable under the disposition and the person who has made the disposition are to be treated notionally as a single taxpayer . |
| 14 | First one has to ask whether as between the alleged wrongdoer and the person who has suffered damage there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that , in the reasonable contemplation of the former , carelessness on his part may be likely to cause damage to the latter , in which case a prima facie duty of care arises . |
| 15 | A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died . |
| 16 | Of the three action sample carers , two had moved towards a preference for home care : Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , though appearing ambivalent , said she was happy for Mrs Cummings to remain at home now that the project , and the services it had generated , had made caring for her mother-in-law so much easier ; and Mrs Cowan 's son-in-law said : ‘ she likes her own home so she 's entitled to stay there ’ . |
| 17 | The 1947 referendum ( and the law it had considered ) were a further step in the strategy adopted in 1945 to improve the appearance of the regime without altering its underlying principles . |
| 18 | Civic Trust officer Jane Taylor said : ‘ This will involve finding out how many people ride , where they go and the problems they have getting there . ’ |
| 19 | They therefore published terrible stories about the hardships of emigration and the problems which had befallen many emigrants . |
| 20 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 21 | Instructions should be obtained from a person or persons with recent , practical experience of the business 's transactions , its products and customers or suppliers , and the problems it has experienced . |
| 22 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 23 | And the improvements it has produced at the Bridgwater , UK , company , which makes high technology flexible packaging material , have already impressed several key customers . |
| 24 | I would n't let myself think how I had hoped to marry Nour and the happiness I had anticipated . |
| 25 | While Cooper and McMahon were still serving their sentences , the Postmaster General who had announced the £5000 Post Office reward money , John Stonehouse , MP , and the detective who had arranged its distribution , Commander Kenneth Drury , were themselves convicted of criminal charges and also sent to prison . |
| 26 | With the work on the campaign and the success we 'd heard she 'd had with it , would she find me too limited when I got out ? |
| 27 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 28 | The scholarship , the skill , the work and the love which had gone into this section of his gardens struck him forcibly . |
| 29 | Later , as she pulled the sheets around her and listened to the night sounds from her bedroom Juliet rememberd the birds on the river , and the cool grass beneath them , and the love they 'd shared . |
| 30 | But her lips were already parted , awaiting the warmth and the love he had deprived her of so long . |