Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy seven P my shoes have got ta . |
| 2 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 3 | From Afdam I took the train to Dire Dawa and from there rode to Harar , through mountains that were beautiful and green after recent rain , following the route my parents had taken in 1909 . |
| 4 | Did , even with the few times my parents have gone away , I 've never held parties , I may of had a couple of mates round just to let them kip over or something , come back I 've never , ever held a party , I would n't , I respect them , well I mean I would n't respect them make , every er penny they earned in the last fifteen years gone into that house , they 've had one holiday in that time and erm , gorgeous house , no its a lovely house , full of nice stuff as well , I , I , I would n't dare have a party |
| 5 | Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly . |
| 6 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 7 | On June 29 he announced that he was terminating a $500 million loan guarantee programme which officials had described as " riddled with abuse " , and a further programme was terminated on July 6 , Kemp estimating that HUD had lost $2,000 million in waste , fraud , and mismanagement during Ronald Reagan 's presidency . |
| 8 | Over many centuries its nations have worked , and frequently fought , side by side . |
| 9 | Grimshaw argues that feminists ' appeal to this humanistic conception of the self as a unitary , atomistic , conscious and rational core is quite inadequate to conceptualise experiences such as self-deception or obsessional delusions , or the contradictions which feminists have described between their rationally held views and political convictions on the one hand , and their emotions and desires on the other . |
| 10 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 11 | Petsos received a 10-month suspended sentence for corruptly facilitating planning permission for a press complex which Koskotas had built near Athens . |
| 12 | Erm the variety of the words which protestors have to stress their anxieties , erm have shown er this is not an orchestrated campaign , although it is er very well organised . |
| 13 | Under Dutch and early British rule their fortunes had varied according to colonial policy towards the cinnamon industry , which at that time provided most of the country 's export earnings . |
| 14 | Whatever had gone on in those weeks apart , whatever course of action their friends had counselled , a minor transformation had occurred . |
| 15 | The local church also plays a strategic role in building up a regional and national picture , the accuracy of which will depend upon the quality of the data which churches have amassed and are willing to divulge . |
| 16 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 17 | The effects of raw sewage on British beaches has earned much of the country 's coastline condemnation from European inspectors whose tests have shown unacceptably high levels of bacteria . |
| 18 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 19 | Rural crafts and industries had long provided extra income for smallholders and cottagers , but by Victorian times population and economic growth had created a large , landless labour force whose members had to earn their entire living from a single craft or a manual occupation . |
| 20 | Mr Edward Pearce , the political pundit whose views have appeared in an impressive number of different newspapers over the past few years , has been pondering the curse of the accountant for the benefit of Guardian readers . |
| 21 | Even more encouraging is the performance of Scotland 's other food and drink exporters whose exports have increased from £224.7 million last year to £278.9 million this year , a rise of 24% . |
| 22 | Its report focuses on 10 organizations whose activities have drawn opposition from native American groups : Rio Tinto Zinc 's Kennecott subsidiary is accused of infringing land rights of the Chippewa Indians in constructing the Flambeau Copper Mine in Wisconsin . |
| 23 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 24 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 25 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 26 | The full horror which Londoners had to endure is commemorated in the re-creation — complete with the sounds of anti-aircraft fire and the acrid smell of burning buildings . |
| 27 | He was also invited to conduct a Mass of his own before the imperial court , which , according to Leopold , went some way towards repairing the damage their enemies had done by preventing the opera . |
| 28 | It is the abuse of freedom which homosexuals have won which distresses me . |
| 29 | Around each bend , a new configuration of arches , pillars , temples , cathedrals and amphitheatres peels into view , eroded rock forms which geologists have sought to describe in architectural terms , but which in scale and complexity dwarf the largest creations of man . |
| 30 | twenty six forms which police had to fill in to prosecute a thief . |