Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't call back that she was asleep or had died . |
| 2 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 3 | those who are unable to cook for themselves because they are disabled or frail or have become very forgetful ; |
| 4 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 5 | We have got together with Hertz , the world 's largest car rental company , to offer you competitive rates for reliable hire cars pre-booked in the U.K. All of these pre-booked Hertz cars are usually less than seven months old or have covered no more than 31,000 miles ( 50,000kms ) are checked , cleaned and full of petrol and are delivered to and from your Club at no extra charge . |
| 6 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 7 | Because the size of potential losses is growing so fast , many insurers now reckon that providing catastrophe cover has simply become too risky and have quit the market . |
| 8 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |
| 9 | The Labour Party were leaving no stone unturned and had published ‘ The New Social Order ’ . |
| 10 | The reefs in deep water off Devon and Cornwall are fairly clear and have given steady sport . |
| 11 | If you are unemployed and have left Salford within the last two years , Careers can mail you copies of vacancy lists . |
| 12 | And if you get an interview you are more likely to succeed if you can prove that you are a positive person who has made demonstrable efforts to counteract the ill-effects of being unemployed and have managed to put your time to constructive use . |
| 13 | whether they send people on a course , whether they send people on a course because they 're long term unemployed and having finished the course then do n't get a job but they are no longer long term unemployed . |
| 14 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 15 | He had got the direction slightly wrong and had passed the dell before he realised it . |
| 16 | He was in fact eighteen , had never seen a battle , and was very nervous of the notorious Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe who was thirty-eight years old and had lost count of all his battles . |
| 17 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 18 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 19 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 20 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 21 | Mr Harper , 63 , of Ronaldshay Drive , Richmond , is a friend to the old and has become their voice . |
| 22 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |
| 23 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 24 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 25 | Geoff is modest , genial and has won British and American Open Championships in the sport . |
| 26 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 27 | But if ever there is a chance , send us a sign that you are free and have made a place . |
| 28 | Odd sheltered parts of Regents arm ice free and have produced small roach catches to 3 lb . |
| 29 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 30 | With their unique dance/chic approach they quickly became very popular and have maintained their following . |