Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally amongst these is included any matter where the complainant has or had a right of appeal or right to go to the courts but has not used it . |
| 2 | No Director has or had during the period any material interest in any contract of significance to the Company 's business . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like to know what connection he has or had with the target of the original surveillance . ’ |
| 4 | She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight — over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer . |
| 5 | Only in the past two decades ( he was 88 when he died last week ) has he spoken out in public , and in the liberal persuasion , on matters such as disarmament in Britain 's policy on nuclear weapons , matters that occupied a great deal of his professional life in government . |
| 6 | Within sat Mait , in plain robes , and a black woman whom Ace had n't seen before , who was dressed in a network of silk strips that left much of her body visible . |
| 7 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 8 | Along its length were neon strips that fluttered and buzzed . |
| 9 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 10 | Stands that set out to rival museums are pretty much a thing of the past , with only Jan Krugier of Geneva holding out here . |
| 11 | The sun set alight the water drops that speckled their leaves and shadowed the ground beneath them . |
| 12 | Dexter turned round one of the gold rings that adorned his fingers and made a stab at humour . |
| 13 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 14 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 15 | She liked to dazzle Montparnasse with her originality ; sometimes she wore long flowing veils , usually she appeared in the smocked Liberty dresses that suited her pert little-girl look . |
| 16 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 17 | Studies based on WFS statistics indicate that the pattern of relationships mirrors that noted above in respect to mother 's education , and that the effect is distinct from that of father 's occupation . |
| 18 | To some degree , the racial abuse and violence in schools mirrors that meted out to black minorities in British cities more generally ( the anti-semitic parallels must again be recalled ) . |
| 19 | In an update of the story on the second anniversary of the disaster , Barron 's , the American business magazine , quoted Vincent Cannistraro 's dismissal of Juval Aviv 's Interfor Report as ‘ absolute nonsense ’ , and the more recent NBC and ABC newscasts that shared some of its conclusions as ‘ total rubbish and fabrication , . |
| 20 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 21 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 22 | Her parents exchanged glances , looks that seemed to remember a long wait for a first and , as it turned out , an only child . |
| 23 | The sort of looks that broke hearts . |
| 24 | The sort of looks that fuelled dreams . |
| 25 | The clear-cut hillsides have been blamed for the mud avalanches that caused almost all of the deaths . |
| 26 | Control F seven , that what causes that Got it in caps . |
| 27 | Soon thereafter the force lines untwisted — rather like a tangle of elastic bands that had suddenly been released — and matters progressed as normal until , after a further 11 years … |
| 28 | Only bands that displayed commitment and willingness to work hard were considered . |
| 29 | When will ordinary people realise that it 's not just god bands that put out records . |
| 30 | Mrs Manderson the local councillor wants that changed . |