Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 2 | In July Higgins had been accused of " compromising national security " in an article about a crackdown on nationalists in Nei Mongol province ( Inner Mongolia ) , based on an internal party document which the Foreign Ministry claimed he had obtained " illegally " . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 4 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 5 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 6 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 7 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 8 | The Bosnian Serb high command denied it had attacked the town . |
| 9 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 10 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 11 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
| 12 | The long-time social crusader said he had been ousted by the trade union block vote and had won the majority support of the individual members of the Birkenhead constituency who took part in the secret ballot on Tuesday . |
| 13 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 14 | Last night the investigating team said they had made a breakthrough when a missing hood from James 's anorak was discovered by officers searching the area . |
| 15 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |
| 16 | Another unemployed divorcee said he 'd been sitting in his room late one night talking with a fellow inmate : |
| 17 | Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay . |
| 18 | Free People claimed they had been ‘ exploding the myth of the happy family ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The German news said it had fallen , but we do n't believe that . ’ |
| 20 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 21 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 22 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 23 | There was a place he lived further down the glen and the old farmer said I 've no objections to you going in there but give me your pipe . |
| 24 | Indeed what exciting lessons did you have to do ? |
| 25 | What exciting lessons did you have today then ? |
| 26 | French police said they had arrested her stepson , 27-year-old Trevor Keith Hollett , who had allegedly confessed to the murder . |
| 27 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 28 | At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall . |
| 29 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 30 | Indeed , for a while , the British Treasury thought they had an ally in the Germans in opposing the Delors Report . |