Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the major policy-making and orientation roles rested with the members of the Council and its multiplicity of committees , the search for promotional roles in association with the institutions was inevitably a key part of the activities we have seen the CNAA 's officers playing . |
| 2 | I 've only got the base I 've lost the top . |
| 3 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 4 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 5 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 6 | So then you 're up to date , but three in the afternoon you 've got the C B S evening news , 'cos they 're also three hours earlier . |
| 7 | In the afternoon he 'd attended a funeral , or just accidentally witnessed one , hanging back , rather , in the mournerless churchyard , where the graves were flush with the earth . |
| 8 | In twenty-five years on the throne he had suffered no major international reverses . |
| 9 | ROS : ( Hurt , desperately ingratiating ) I-I bet you all the money I 've got the year of my birth doubled is an odd number . |
| 10 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
| 11 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 12 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 13 | And during the past two decades of my involvement with the people of the Alto I have seen a discourse on nervos and sickness replace a discourse on angry hunger . |
| 14 | Within the hour he had joined a company of infantrymen from the 26th Regiment at Kahlenbergerdorf . |
| 15 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 16 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 17 | The times I have lost all the stitches and the times I 've had the wrong rows one side of the neck ! |
| 18 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 19 | count of the times you 've given the kiss of life ; |
| 20 | Elisabeth recalled the times she had seen the midwife arrive at a peasant 's cottage . … |
| 21 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 22 | And er one of the reasons they 've reduced the levels of anaesthetic is because the more they reduce the levels of anaesthetic , the lower your chances of dying during the anaesthesia . |
| 23 | One of the reasons we 've got a very good language link is the language univer courses that the University did in the East in the European department , the Baltic Studies . |
| 24 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 25 | Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible . |
| 26 | He was trying to remember the route he had taken the morning de Craon 's men had stopped him . |
| 27 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 28 | In Robert Gray 's detailed analysis of the leisure activities , in the wider sense , of the Edinburgh " labour aristocracy " including male printers towards the end of the century , almost all the indices he has used -the bowls club , flower show , reading-room , Volunteer Rifles — were all-male organizations . |
| 29 | Down the Boarman they 've had a three , three offers of Hamper Agency for next year . |
| 30 | And erm he goes , say I , say , we 've got a runner today , Peony , but erm the lad 's got ta go he 's got ta go into the weighing room , wa well he 's , get his form , fill it in the weight he 's got the jockey who rides him , that 's got ta be erm , forty five minutes before the race . |