Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser , originally a Gordon Highlander who had fought in France in the rearguard actions of 1940 , had been in the S.A.S. from the beginning , and both were veterans of classic raids in Sicily and Italy . |
| 2 | ‘ … preserve the memory and honour the example by charitable means of comrades or members of the Association who have died in our Service … ’ |
| 3 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 4 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 5 | Roxburgh 's licence to live it up could be a matchwinner for a Scotland side who have lost in Switzerland and scraped a lucky home draw with Portugal in their opening Group One matches . |
| 6 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 7 | On the other hand the new Deputy Prime Minister in charge of finance and the economy , Boris Fedorov , Russia 's representative at the World Bank , was a radical reformer who had served as Russian Finance Minister in 1990 . |
| 8 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 9 | Clinton was much like the others — a rangy boy with a tuxedo in his trunk who had come to Oxford to study political science and to read all he could before starting to build a career in law and government . |
| 10 | Dame Una Pope-Hennessy ( the formidable mother of James and John Pope-Hennessy and a friend of Ivy and Margaret ) had been cross with a reviewer who had written of her book about jade : ‘ Dame Una skirts gracefully round the subject . ’ |
| 11 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 12 | Later , the witness who had testified against Muawad withdrew his allegation , saying it was ‘ politically motivated . ’ |
| 13 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
| 14 | For example , in 1976 , three DUP councillors in Ballymena boycotted the Remembrance Day service ( an event they would normally have been very keen to support ) because a Roman Catholic priest who had served in the Royal Naval Reserve was reading a lesson . |
| 15 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 16 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 17 | Fr Denis Faul , a Catholic priest who has campaigned against excesses by the security forces , said the appointment was ‘ rather unfortunate ’ . |
| 18 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |
| 19 | Wycliffe remembered a great-uncle who had fought under Buller and talked of little else . |
| 20 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 21 | DR GIBSON is a psychologist who has written on hypnotism and on Hans Eysenck . |
| 22 | We had embarked two such affairs in the last year ; the most memorable being an English lawyer who had arrived with his French mistress , but only after telling his wife that he was attending a legal conference in Brussels and , to preserve the lie , he had been forced to hide every inch of his pallid skin in case a sun-tan betrayed him . |
| 23 | The cube contained the works of a poet who had died in the distant town where Cley was born . |
| 24 | It seems certain that the blend of characteristics at Great Witcombe is attributable to a mosaicist who had worked on the St. Nicholas Street mosaic . |
| 25 | Dr Richard Webb , an American nuclear physicist who had worked on the early submarine PWRs , produced scenarios which showed that a land area about the size of the British Isles could have to be abandoned in the wake of a catastrophic accident . |
| 26 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 27 | I would also be very happy to receive any in-depth descriptions of experiences of teachers in your institution who have worked in this general area . |
| 28 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 29 | MOLLY PICON , the diminutive Jewish-American actress who has died at Lancaster , Pennsylvania , aged 93 , was the leading exponent of Yiddish drama during its golden age in New York in the early part of the century ; an outstanding performer on the international variety stage between the World Wars ; and a notable legitimate player on Broadway and in London in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | They were leery of the figure of light who had appeared as if by magic yet who looked so solid . |