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

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1 If Liu Chang had lied to him , or had given him a signal which would tip Herrick off …
2 It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure .
3 ‘ Five and twenty years ago ’ , he wrote , ‘ who in all the earth would have invested his money in a Mexican bank ; have trusted his savings in a Mexican mine ; or have considered it a safe and prudent thing to go to Mexico at all ? ’
4 She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon .
5 Young Patsy ‘ Eighth Wonder ’ Kensit displays the style and poise that has made her a Hollywood superstar .
6 A leadership style that has made her a remarkably effective prime minister would be a crippling liability in the White House .
7 But he 's prepared to be judged on the kind of material that has made him a television star .
8 This absorption gives the spectacular deep blue that has made it a popular material for ornaments since the Middle Ages .
9 All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere .
10 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
11 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
12 They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be .
13 ‘ I want to put something back into the game that has given me a good life . ’
14 Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive .
15 ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg .
16 But now he 's back on the track chasing the appearance money that has earned him a detached house in the Surrey stockbroker belt of Lightwater .
17 But there is one inflammatory comment that has guaranteed him an FA rap .
18 ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’
19 The other possibility er is that having read it the site visit that I will have made , in any event , either already or or at some time during the latter part of next week , I may discover there is something which one of the parties points out which I have n't looked at because I did n't realize that it was relevant .
20 It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave .
21 Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit .
22 The one Masklin had found in the Store , the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck .
23 In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power .
24 We re-learnt the lessons that had made us a free , harmonious and prosperous nation in the past .
25 Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business .
26 He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg .
27 They had co-operated on several criminal cases ; the scoops that had brought her the professional acclaim she revelled in .
28 ‘ There is another point , Dr. Briant , ’ Kegan said hastily , regretting the self-indulgence that had allowed him the dig at Briant .
29 And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome .
30 There is no doubt that some worksheets are simply banal , and it may be these that have given them a bad name — especially the quiz type that simply ask " How many ? " or " What ? "
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