Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun prp] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally , rally ace Colin McRae has achieved the best place by a British driver in any World Championship event : by finishing second in the Swedish rally . |
| 2 | — BOWLS ace Ian Peacock has been named as Clubman of the Year at Leadgate WMC . |
| 3 | Moody Matt Dillon has managed to avoid screaming headlines . |
| 4 | Ten-year-old Marvin Grugel has to decide whether to don the red or blue , with both Liverpool and Everton fighting for his signature . |
| 5 | Most conspicuously , in virtually the central spot of the otherwise empty and highly polished floor , lay the dust-pan Miss Kenton had alluded to . |
| 6 | As Representative Mo Udall has colourfully put it , ‘ It used to be that when you met a chairman in the hall you bowed low and said , hello Mr Chairman ; now when you meet a chairman in the hall he bows low . ’ |
| 7 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 8 | BRAINY Steven Hazlehurst has twelve O-levels , four A-levels , a maths degree and the highest IQ in Mensa . |
| 9 | Seems we may have a chance of finding out : In America , 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley has already ‘ divorced ’ his real parents in a successful legal action . |
| 10 | The divine Miss Grimsilk has already arrived in Hochhauser — at her own request , unmet and unheralded — and will be coming to see me at one . |
| 11 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 12 | Old Lillian Tibbs had done well at the Market . |
| 13 | Your great-grandfather was the most remarkable High King Ireland has ever known , Grainne ; he liked to listen to the talk of people from other cultures , and he liked to learn about other lands . |
| 14 | They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid Colonel Fagg has taken an objection to you , dear boy , ’ said Gooseneck to Amiss that lunch-time . |
| 16 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 17 | Old Ma Grace had nothing on the lass from Junagadh . |
| 18 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 19 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 20 | The neighbouring British Virgin Islands had become an associate member of the OECS in 1984 . |
| 21 | What I am going to talk about next is erm I 'll just mention that , about another 5 minutes , I think , will get us to the other great bit of work that poor old Edward Heath had to do in St Aldate 's , which again , that gives us a great deal about the insight as to what it was like there . |
| 22 | Old Miss Mahoney had a little house in Tanner Road , but she had to go into hospital last week , and if she ever comes out , she 'll have to go into a home for old people . |
| 23 | ALCOHOLIC Linda McMullen had been savagely beaten but the main cause of her death was the soil , debris and vegetation that had been packed into her mouth and choked her , a jury at Mold Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 24 | Maybe what I was saying was n't so very different from what Old Mother Walsh had given the troops all those years ago . |
| 25 | Old Mother Walsh had urged her followers to ‘ bring living things and offer them to the Lord ’ , and there is an account somewhere of the Sisters of Harmony sacrificing a sheep . |
| 26 | That Old Mother Walsh had it right and that Ella Walsh should never have led the Church into the ways of men . |
| 27 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 28 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 29 | Nine-week-old Katie Phillips had been admitted to Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital for observation after her sister Becky died , John Goldring , QC , told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 30 | At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith . |