Example sentences of "have [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 A disadvantage of team teaching , of course , has been that it required the teacher , normally an individualistic person accustomed to complete authority within the four walls of his classroom , to sink his authority and his subject speciality within a group .
2 The second could have been that whoever ordered the manuscript took seriously Rameau 's silly claim that the keyboard part was self-sufficient and that no one hearing a solo performance of this music would guess that anything was missing .
3 All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation .
4 The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world .
5 She only realised how tense she had been when she replaced the receiver and found the palm of her hands covered in a fine film of perspiration .
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