Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
2 However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact .
3 Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all .
4 The model represented more than Dr. Lorrimer who had been unkind to her and William , who had practically thrown them out of the laboratory .
5 He was a man who had always put it about a bit , as Harry Chiltern said .
6 But if the Prime Minister does not get a grip soon , even those who have staunchly backed him up to now will conclude that there is no alternative but for him to go .
7 But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move .
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