Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 If Harbury had heard the story Pascoe had just related , he might have been confirmed in his belief that it was possible .
2 However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 .
3 When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up .
4 A decaying treestump sprouted a collar of saffron fungus of a kind Edward had never seen before .
5 Cheap fibre imported from the Far East is a growing threat and European viscose rayon rival Lenzing has recently set up business in Tennessee .
6 Competition organiser cheryl Ireland has already pencilled in June 29 as the date for this year 's Pro-Am .
7 They had broken their meeting temporarily while the fire was dealt with , but when Fischer returned the Ping Tiao had already gone .
8 Because our neighbour country of South-West Africa has already got its freedom .
9 Recent research in north-east Perthshire has vividly demonstrated the complexity of that landscape .
10 Healthcare Birmingham have recently gained the contract to service the new Birmingham Eurohub at Birmingham 's International Airport .
11 With nearly thirty years in the force Wycliffe had rarely felt so shamed by others .
12 Although Dolben was probably not interested sentimentally in Hopkins , he admired him and his poetry , and the two young men deeply influenced each other in both their verse and their intentions of becoming Roman Catholic converts , an ambition Dolben had not fulfilled at his death .
13 Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel .
14 The room was full of a tension Alice had not known before , not even during their sometimes rather stiff North Oxford dinner parties .
15 A tall lady in dark blue velvet , with a string of agates round her neck and a golden diadem in her hair ; a lady Isabella had never seen before in her year at the court of Gwynedd .
16 He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends .
17 A pity Nigel has n't got long curling eyelashes .
18 A pity Simon had n't stayed in the kitchen .
19 Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift .
20 But perhaps the most striking example of the sombre side of suffering in obedience to God which the Spirit of Jesus calls us to Is provided by Paul in the Corinthian correspondence Kasemann has perceptively observed , in Jesus Means Freedom that this church at Corinth was infatuated with a theology of the Spirit whilst allergic to a theology of the cross .
21 It was a question Jed had never allowed himself before .
22 A second A–20 has also found a new home .
23 A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ .
24 But the South West have never managed such recoveries .
25 I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that .
26 ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that .
27 Whether I 'll be remembered as the most pompous , hard-to-get-along-with person they 've ever come across , because I stand up for what I believe in , or as the best athlete Britain 's ever had , which I think will be the case , I 'll always be remembered . ’
28 Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence .
29 Mary was rather difficult but she was also just about the most beautiful girl Rufus had ever come across .
30 Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies .
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