Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 32 | The ‘ bush ’ pilots I knew included ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan , Harry MacConachie and Neville Hollick-Kenyon , the latter being a debonair Englishman who had previously flown for Imperial Airways on the flying boat service from London to New York . |
| 33 | For a band who 've frequently balanced on that tightrope ‘ twixt credibility and downright incredulity , it 's a fittingly bewildering mish-mash of live footage , snippets of interviews , shots of them recording the ‘ Achtung Baby ’ album in Berlin and stacks of stuff from the first leg of the current World Tour . |
| 34 | But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself . |
| 35 | In reality , Spiro 's main contact was Dr Adnan Mroueh , a Shia Moslem gynaecologist who had also served as a junior minister in the Lebanese Cabinet . |
| 36 | This was the first time I had ever encountered anyone walking into a cathedral who had never heard of Jesus Christ . |
| 37 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 38 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 39 | The story is recounted by the unnamed founder of the Mnemosyne Institute in Philadelphia , an elderly widower who has recently retired after making his millions as instructor to ‘ executives , politicians and members of the defense establishment ’ . |
| 40 | Written by a 32-year-old who had already published in the libertarian vein of the student movement which erupted in Bologna in 1977 ( Casa di nessuno , No one 's house 1981 ) , such a move might seem like a premature return to order . |
| 41 | Also , a character who has successfully made at least one previous WP test here is allowed a +10 bonus for any subsequent test ( this is n't cumulative with further successes ) . |
| 42 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 43 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 44 | " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room . |
| 45 | Would it be enough , for example , that a person published material to a handful of his neighbours urging them to make life difficult for a black person who has recently moved into the neighbourhood ? |
| 46 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
| 47 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 48 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 49 | A little further away was a young woman who had just arrived on her horse , with her maid on foot . |
| 50 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 51 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 52 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 53 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 54 | As almost every woman who has ever complained about jokes against women has been told , ‘ Where 's your sense of humour ? ’ |
| 55 | That I am jealous of every woman who has ever slept with him . |
| 56 | It was a stylistic departure for Chloe but not one at odds with the image of the house or , more importantly , its feminine , peach-packaged floral fragrance familiar to every woman who has ever passed through a department store perfumery . |
| 57 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 58 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 59 | As you know , I am a manager who has never shirked from putting a player 's welfare before football and , unlike many less tolerant managers , I was quite happy for Steve Gillery to hold his stag ‘ night ’ at 10 a.m. on the morning of the match , albeit a game crucial to our survival . |
| 60 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |