Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 2 | The National Health Service Act of 1948 only acknowledged and institutionalised those divisions , it did not cause them , just as the 1974 reorganisation has done nothing to diminish them . |
| 3 | There 's a meeting on and the chairman has asked me to get you up here to the boardroom . ’ |
| 4 | But you would only approach that business on the basis that well the estate agent has asked me to give you er you know he he feels that you would benefit and erm from this exposure and er has asked me to approach you first . |
| 5 | I supported the lifting of sanctions , but the avalanche of death and blood has made me realise we 've all been conned ’ . |
| 6 | Could my fondness have kept you steady I should not now appear before you in this solemn manner . |
| 7 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 8 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 9 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 10 | Her forehead shines whitely above the dark glasses ; she has not been well but the resting home has allowed her to visit us for the afternoon . |
| 11 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to let you know that they have no objections to the proposal providing it is in keeping with the present development on the site . |
| 12 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to let you know they have no objections to this application . |
| 13 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to let you know they have no objections to this application . |
| 14 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to let you know they have no objections to them . |
| 15 | But what they 've done is , they 've actually dis distorted the rules on P E Ps as time 's gone along and the Chancellor 's allowed them to do it , and the distortions are getting more and more elaborate , and er I think they keep knocking on the revenue door and saying er we , we 've designed this one , is this okay ? |
| 16 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Your Papa has asked me to tell you … ’ |
| 18 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 19 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 20 | Her husband had asked her to keep them for me — keep them in the family , that is , but she did n't want to be troubled with all the precautions and inspections since the Firearms Acts . |
| 21 | Once the therapist has extracted one thought they can find out the one behind it . |
| 22 | Do n't go along the road trying to keep yourself a nice separation distance and as soon as the tail end of another lorry has passed you flash him in and then you 're like this . |
| 23 | The King had invited me to enter it , so I stepped over the surrounding wall into the palace garden . |
| 24 | A friend had said he recalled they had worked on an ocean liner docked in Liverpool after the war alongside men stripping out asbestos , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 25 | But now spoil-sport officials in the Roads Service have ordered him to remove them , claiming they could cause an accident . |
| 26 | I 've had them born in the car on the way the the mother have come to see me the father has brought her to see me thinking that if she could just see me she 'd be alright . |
| 27 | If in doubt whether a particular matter is relevant , a good test is to ask yourself whether , if the examiner had wished you to discuss it , he would naturally have framed an extra question upon it . |
| 28 | Perhaps the father had left her to face it alone , I do n't know . |
| 29 | When the punch had cooled he took it out to the garden shed , within easy reach of Tibbles who , since her dose of chicken thallium , seemed to have improved in every conceivable way , and went upstairs to the bedroom . |
| 30 | At the time of its building , no one in the district had seen anything like it before . |