Example sentences of "[num] and have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days also the boats were unchanged since Vincent Van Gogh had spent one week there in June 1888 and had painted them , red and blue , green and yellow , with coloured delicate masts erect , and the slanted , tapering yard-arms crossing each other on the pale mackerel sky . |
| 2 | He was one of several men from the Midlands in Palace sides of the early and mid-1920s and had joined us from Coventry City in July 1922 , as part of a complex six-player exchange deal negotiated between the clubs by Palace boss Mr Edmund Goodman . |
| 3 | He began using heroin at the age of 18 and has used it more or less regularly for five years . |
| 4 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 5 | Professor Rogers has shown the role of the wider populace when elections were contested in the widely enfranchised Westminster constituency in 1741 and 1749 and has suggested they foreshadowed the riots associated with John Wilkes . |
| 6 | I first read Punch in the school library in 1962 and have read it ever since . |
| 7 | Aeroflot is due to start up a Stansted to St Petersburg service on March 28 and has indicated it might apply for transatlantic routes later in the year . |
| 8 | Mistakes were easily made : the C scribe , for example , originally omitted the year number for 1029 and had to squeeze it in . |
| 9 | Gover took over from Strudwick in 1938 and has run it himself since 1954 . |
| 10 | Writer Tim Hilton , art critic of The Guardian , is a passionate cyclist who saw his first Tour in 1955 and has followed it ever since . |
| 11 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 12 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |