Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Producer Mike Leander , who is also Gary Glitter 's manager , tells me the video has been a blessing for his two Burmese cats . |
| 2 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 3 | The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think . |
| 4 | This gives me the chance to have a last word on the World Cricket Cup final . |
| 5 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 6 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 7 | He also said : ‘ It seems to me the Press have a powerfully destructive herd instinct , which I believe will be their undoing . |
| 8 | Before me the argument has covered three main areas . |
| 9 | Your feet are in the mud ; to me the mud has become roses . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , for me the house had always seemed to stand a little aloof , and as well as a respectful reserve I felt still the restriction of a child in the company of old people : ‘ Not too much noise , dear , because … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 13 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 14 | ‘ Will you tell them the quarry has an ally on the train , travelling I think with the racegoers . |
| 15 | For them the choice has been an entry level model pared to the bone , the used car lot or an east European ‘ cheapie ’ . |
| 16 | Tell them the company has n't taken a stance at all , that our analysts are still working on it . " |
| 17 | To assist them the Government has made the west of the region a Development Area in which special grants are given to industries . |
| 18 | Any Romanian had learnt instinctively to expect the opposite of what the Party assured them the future had to offer . |
| 19 | Thinking on his feet , Prost whipped out a fistful of cash , sparing both of them the embarrassment had he paid by credit card . |
| 20 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 21 | These are essentially isolated from the main curricular work of a school and for those involved in them the profile has its own validity in the same way that , for example , RSA typing examinations have always done . |
| 22 | All around them the world had come to life . |
| 23 | They noted with fear Terry Wade 's eight goals within a minute and it was lucky for them the referee had not kicked off before he scored them . |
| 24 | ‘ Thus , Madam , I the Truth have told ; |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 26 | like on i well no , no , you have to , you the net has to fall over a certain part of the creature . |
| 27 | That is a form of typewriter , whereby it 's possible to generate a letter and , unlike an ordinary typewriter , if you make a mistake it is very easy to make the corrections because the word processor gives you the opportunity to have a look at the letter on a television screen before it is finally typed on paper . |
| 28 | Children too are well catered for , giving you the chance to have some time off as well . |
| 29 | We are delivered onto the twenty-second floor with an incessant warning pong-pong-pong sound which is supposed to inform you the door has opened . |
| 30 | There had been , for one thing , enormous population growth I 'll put the figures up for you The population had roughly trebled er between seventeen hundred and eighteen fifty and then , in the period we 're primarily concerned with here , the hundred years from eighteen fifty to nineteen fifty have increased from four hundred and thirty million up to five hundred and eighty million . |