Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some minutes after he had dragged his coat over his head and entered the house through the back door , the children waited , trustingly expecting him to emerge with Henry in his hands . |
| 2 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 3 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 4 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 5 | I 'll be able to model your gown ; it 's right at the end of the show , so I 'll have a few minutes after I 've finished Roman 's clothes . ’ |
| 6 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 7 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 8 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 9 | She 'd called him Sage , and she only stayed at my house for a few minutes as she had to get right back to see her new baby — the owl , of course . |
| 10 | Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage . |
| 11 | There have always been surprisingly few monopolies though they have become principal protectors of the exclusivity of the legal profession . |
| 12 | if you come back on the one before you 've only got about three and a half hours so you 've got four hours on the ferry , three and a half there and then four hours back again have n't you ? |
| 13 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 14 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 15 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 16 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 17 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 18 | David please will you get me some teabags if they 've got any ? |
| 19 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 20 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 21 | Perhaps the clearest expression of Shevardnadze 's views was a speech he delivered in April 1986 on the anniversary of Lenin 's birth , some months after he had become professionally responsible for foreign affairs . |
| 22 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 23 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 24 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 25 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 26 | I observed a small yellow patch in the centre of one fish in a shoal of Neon Tetras some weeks after they had passed through quarantine . |
| 27 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 28 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 29 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 30 | An appearance by Reagan , Le Monde suggested , might still save the show , even two and a half years after it had started . |