Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 2 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 3 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 4 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 5 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 6 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 7 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 8 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 9 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 10 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 11 | Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 12 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 13 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 14 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 15 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 16 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 17 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 18 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 19 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 20 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 21 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |
| 22 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 23 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 24 | He has freed you from the burden of the rules of Holy Law . ’ |
| 25 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 26 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 27 | I think being a bit older has helped me with the course . |
| 28 | But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible . |
| 29 | Use this form to tell us exactly how it has helped you on the farm or even in your contracting business . |
| 30 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |