Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 32 | To relieve the strain she turned to painting , a pastime she has loved since childhood . |
| 33 | And a computer you 've got a spellchecker . |
| 34 | The superiority conferred by money or that of being an expert in a field she had glimpsed and credited , but on what , she wondered , apart from their rank , did the superiority of these senior clergy rest ? |
| 35 | In the North Sea 's Central Field , CCG provide a complete hotel service on four units for Shell Expo , a contract we have held for over three years . |
| 36 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 37 | Yeah and the lad from work 's a scouser he 's said it , I 'm going home now to watch the football , I think he 's going there actually , I think he could be there , Rob you know him |
| 38 | Comshare uses Scripts , a technique it has developed to port commands from the application to the database . |
| 39 | I was suddenly stunned by Heather 's amazing speed and decisiveness ; quick as a flash she had booked into the B&B ! |
| 40 | Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground , |
| 41 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 42 | Piaget 's experimental studies required children to recount a story they had heard , or explain the working of an instrument such as a tap . |
| 43 | they can draw pictures to illustrate part of a story they have listened to . |
| 44 | There he boldly repeated a story he had heard about Henry 's relations with the sister of Anne Boleyn [ q.v. ] and her mother . |
| 45 | It was the remains of a childish fancy , created by a story he had read , but it returned to him most vividly at this moment . |
| 46 | Tommy listened , nodding , as if it was a story he 'd heard before . |
| 47 | ‘ This is quite a story you 've uncovered , my boy ! |
| 48 | She will not hear of it and tells him the summer will restore her to her full strength , a story you have heard before and will not believe any more than I do . |
| 49 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 50 | Of course McDunn points out that I could still be the murderer ; this could all be a story I 've made up . |
| 51 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 52 | Well let's have a look we 've got er Second Schedule . |
| 53 | Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love . |
| 54 | He pointed out the pebbled street in front of park 's Guest House where they had first stayed and a bungalow they had taken between the church and the golf links . |
| 55 | It was a smell he had come to associate with Auguste Didier 's kitchens , and after an hour in Naseby 's company , it was all the more welcome . |
| 56 | But , even while her spirits were taking a nosedive that , supposing he was offering her a lift to Prague , there would n't be any point in accepting if it was unlikely she 'd be able to book in anywhere , he , to her absolute astonishment , was going on , ‘ There 's a spare room in a suite I 've reserved for this month — you can have that if you wish . ’ |
| 57 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 58 | If any of these women were seriously important to him , she could n't tell from his attitude , so she was able to listen quite happily when he spoke about a play he had seen with Paula , or repeated an anecdote of Wendy 's about her job as a television production assistant . |
| 59 | Some years ago , I was censured following a public reading of a play I had written because of the behaviour of a female character in it . |
| 60 | It 's a play I have seen acted regularly in each village , and on every occasion it 's exactly the same . |