Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 2 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 3 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 4 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 5 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | And worse , we had recently found it necessary to replace two of the three giggling girls who had sadly fallen victim to the Spanish flu epidemic , and sack the third for incompetence . |
| 8 | There were the embusqués , who had somehow dodged the war , and the profiteers who had already amassed sizeable fortunes ( from which they were rapidly enriching the restaurateurs and the jewellers , who had never known business to be better ) . |
| 9 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 10 | The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material . |
| 11 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 12 | This ‘ closed drawbridge ’ mentality from those who have safely gained access to the good life , or at least a better life , is itself one of the factors that is having a ‘ ghettoizing ’ effect on the underclass . |