Example sentences of "[noun] and have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 2 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 3 | They do n't all have the same erm facilities as Sussex , nor indeed the same tradition of town and gown relationships , but nevertheless within the university there are several groups of people wanting to develop ideas of literature festivals or performance arts events , which we try and encourage because erm we have very little money within the Arts Association and have to maximise whatever facilities and people that we can lay our hands on . |
| 4 | I stayed with Plowman , the Consul , and his wife : they had been in Addis Ababa for the coronation and had invited me to visit them at Harar . |
| 5 | Sir Francis records his pique that , having made these efforts , he was not even given a free ticket for the Coronation and had to buy his own . |
| 6 | Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before . |
| 7 | It seemed certain that the dead man in the park had attacked the killer and had left his mark — many people mentioned a cut and a badly bloodstained face . |
| 8 | The Navigator ached almightily with cramps and had soiled himself . |
| 9 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 10 | By 1963 de Gaulle was securely in power as French President and had settled his most pressing original problem , the colonial war in Algeria . |
| 11 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 12 | He thought that either the military were arresting all the leading dissidents and had cut his communication links with the outside world , or the rebels had succeeded in crippling the vidphone network . |
| 13 | The German chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig , gargantuan collector , founder of museums and museum wings and lender to others ( The Art Newspaper No. 23 , December 1992 , p. 12 ) , wrote his thesis in the 1940s on Picasso and has collected him ever since . |
| 14 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ answers the management , ‘ my suppliers of components have raised their prices , and unless I raise mine too I shall make a loss and have to sack my employees . ’ |
| 15 | Malik , who rescued Rugby from extinction in 1986 by buying the clubhouse from the liquidators , has alleged breach of contract in commercial dealings with the club and has used his ownership of the drive and car park to sue for trespass . |
| 16 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 17 | I won a marginal seat and have held it on five successive occasions . |
| 18 | The publication of HMI inspection reports has allowed examination of HMI methodology and has exposed its limitations ( Lawton and Gordon , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Ian Crook came out of Tottenham reserves and has shown what a quality player he is . |
| 20 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 21 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , we have attempted to derive a better index of fetal adiposity than simple birth weight and have found it to have a significant bearing on results of regression analysis , suggesting that maternal glycaemia does have an impact on fetal size independent of maternal weight . |
| 23 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | Mrs Ellen Newton , of Beacon Hill , Hindhead , Surrey , who died in January , admired Mr Paisley and had followed his progress through television and newspaper reports . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and have regained my appetite for the game . |
| 26 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 27 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 28 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 29 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 30 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |