Example sentences of "[that] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If you are sincerely dieting in a way that has led you to lose weight in the past , just stick with the same regime for a further week or two .
2 I really feel a foreigner and walk up the drive cursing the mud that has ruined my gold stilettos .
3 IT 'S a question that has intrigued us , and doubtless thousands of others , for years .
4 Maybe , then , it is The Smiths ' natural unease before cameras that has motivated their hatred of video .
5 This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) .
6 After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support .
7 And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches .
8 ‘ He that has seen me ’ , Jesus said to Philip , ‘ has seen the father . ’
9 British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants .
10 The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season .
11 For a city that has seen plenty of violence , Colombo was curiously calm after Mr Premadasa 's death .
12 It is huge and successful , but over the past decade it has undergone a radical change that has seen it transformed from a seemingly crusty , actuary-dominated organisation to one that is prominently business led , competitive and very high profile .
13 Which brings us to the most important constituent of the whole NME recipe that has seen us , scarred but hopefully unbowed , through 40 years — the readers .
14 In doing so they offer , it seems , their most conclusive definition of the word that has inspired their fiction :
15 Such a move would cause her pain , would shorten her days , would deny the stout heart that has kept her here all these weeks .
16 He 's the only thing that has kept me going .
17 Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party .
18 The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business .
19 ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately .
20 Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months .
21 He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches .
22 I believe it to be Treasure Hunting magazine that has kept us all together and interested in the hobby , for all these years .
23 Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ .
24 ‘ Unfortunately my wife could n't come because she teaches , but I expect that has curtailed my sightseeing and increased my output . ’
25 So when we come across one that has reached its sixth , we must sit up , take notice and ask why market forces have singled it out for special success .
26 Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination .
27 The chief ambulance officer , Mr Jim Barkley , said he had asked for police help on behalf of the 12 district health authorities because it was ‘ a very serious escalation — the worst that has hit us ’ .
28 We ought first to remind ourselves that for every type of animal throughout time there has always been a most convenient size that has fitted it neatly into its own niche .
29 What 's more , it 's best not to purchase a great wine , with another 10 or more years to wait before consumption , from a shop that has displayed it under bright light lights and in changing temperatures .
30 And they 're sure it 's this attitude that has made them so successful .
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