Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report also confirmed that contras had reinfiltrated Nicaragua and had committed atrocities against the civilian population , often executing people . |
| 2 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 3 | PC Jones said he had not provoked Gore but had seen his attacker in the pub on occasions . |
| 4 | At Indica he had met Miles and had struck up a friendship with the ever-cordial Jim Haynes , and the early contributors pushed the new magazine beyond an Australian mafia , he emphasizes . |
| 5 | A sense of something old , strange and eerie came over me as we passed directly below Benbulbin , that strange grey-green mountain , chief link in the chain that guarded Ulster and has made it the most separate of Irish provinces from the beginning of time . |
| 6 | For the next two hours the literary lunchers surged around Hannah and virtually ignored the ostensible star of the show , who had been obliged to immediately follow Hannah and had fallen flat . |
| 7 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 8 | The argument was over Zack 's decision to close with the negotiator called Quinn and have done with the whole thing at two million dollars ransom . |
| 9 | Opponents have lost their fear of facing Neath and have encountered a team low on confidence among the younger members and low on motivation among the older ones who have won everything and done everything . |
| 10 | He was ready to leave Northants and had gone off , with his customary annual zeal , to coach and play for Otago — and think about a geographical change of scenery in England . |
| 11 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 12 | As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further . |
| 13 | He was elected to Middlesbrough Council in 1983 to represent Hemlington and has done so ever since . |
| 14 | He had a daughter as well now whom he had been tempted to call Lilian but had seen the unwisdom of this in time and named her Bridget . |
| 15 | Finn it was who was Peeping Tom and had put his tongue in her mouth . |
| 16 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 17 | Gavoty knew Honegger and had discussed with him this astonishing work — ‘ a drama in three acts , a formless prayer articulated by a world in turmoil' — which Honegger had written in the winter of 1945–6 . |
| 18 | When they reached Etaples and had pitched their tents for the night , Charlie decided that perhaps the gymnasium in Edinburgh had been luxury after all . |
| 19 | He had started Supersight and had made quite an impact on an already highly competitive market with some clubs and putters which were a shade too gimmicky for me , but were tailor-made for the average club golfer , who will buy anything if it is ‘ guaranteed to add fifteen yards to your drive ’ . |
| 20 | A three-man delegation from Bayern Munich — the team coach , Erich Ribbeck , general manager , Uli Hoeness , and club vice president , Karl Heinz Rummenigge — travelled back to Germany yesterday after watching Ferguson and having received further information from the last Scot to have played for them , Allan McInally . |
| 21 | I had no intention of leaving Armstrong and had kept the engine ticking over as there was no way I could start him up in a hurry . |
| 22 | Jackson told him that General MacArthur had spoken to Jackson before he left Tokyo and had urged him to do all he could to assist Hodge and to prevent any dangerous developments . |
| 23 | Radio Moscow World Service quoted Gamsakhurdia as having cancelled talks with the opposition scheduled for Sept. 30 , because " the opposition did not lay down arms " . |
| 24 | In one of his articles Bernard quoted Cézanne as having said of Gauguin : ‘ He did not understand me . |
| 25 | She joined a plot to assassinate Trotsky and had to flee to France . |
| 26 | Two and a half months earlier Dedjazmatch Abashum had come here with a large force to collect the tribute which the Asaimara were withholding , but he had been afraid to enter Bahdu and had withdrawn . |
| 27 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 28 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 29 | The plot goes something like this : Bowser ( an evil character ) has captured Mario and has got his evil Koopas ( looking just a bit like the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles ) to steal parts of famous monuments from around the world . |