Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Earlier this year Sam , who has earned up to £500,000 a year from her work , was named as Britain 's 179th richest woman . |
| 32 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 33 | But Souness is backing the player who has taken over from Bruce Grobbelaar , Anfield 's first-choice keeper for the last 11 seasons . |
| 34 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 35 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 36 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 37 | But I spent a few bob buying drinks for a couple of old OSS types who 'd turned up in their London station and they took pity on me and let drop the codename : Winter Garden . |
| 38 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 39 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 40 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 41 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 42 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 43 | But she was always there when he came back from real or imagined expeditions , not like his father who 'd walked out after a drunken row one night . |
| 44 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 45 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 46 | Meanwhile the argument between the vegetarians and the farmers over who 'd chickened out of the original challenge goes on . |
| 47 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 48 | He 's got friends there who 've moved on to the staff , and he reckons he can pump them for information without making any official waves . |
| 49 | He 's seen old people who 've moved out of homes before and they 've enjoyed it . |
| 50 | All the Luftwaffe crews who 've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps . |
| 51 | SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE WHO 'VE GROWN UP WITH SPORT . |
| 52 | And many villagers who 've grown up with the noise of the jets say its the end of an era . |
| 53 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 54 | Traders who 've gone out of business in a showpiece shopping complex are suing the developers for damages . |
| 55 | No it 's who 've called in to yeah Andy . |
| 56 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 57 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 58 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 59 | She 'll be home to the volunteers who 've spent up to three thousand pounds for the chance to sail some of the seven seas . |
| 60 | I 've had many students who 've done this in front of me who 've started off by saying , my client is not a criminal . |