Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 2 | The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability . |
| 3 | Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action . |
| 4 | Being deliberately deceitful about the Government 's policies has become something of a habit for the Labour party . |
| 5 | Simple pressure of calls has taken us from one to five lines over the years and the only reason we have stuck at five is because the office is simply too small to take any more . |
| 6 | From the Schallenberg the road descends in the course of 1 5km ( 9 miles ) via Oberei and Schwarzenegg to Steffisburg , which in modern times has become something of a dormitory suburb to 4km- ( 2½ miles- ) distant Thun . |
| 7 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 8 | And Piers has got nothing on his side . |
| 9 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree that the way in which the House has dealt with European matters in recent months has left something to be desired , and I am taking steps to try to improve it . |
| 10 | Dewi had wanted her to be independent , to fend for herself when he was no longer there to take care of her , but he could not have known that his death would have come so suddenly , striking him down in the prime of his manhood . |
| 11 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 12 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 13 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 14 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 15 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 16 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 17 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 18 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 19 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 20 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 21 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 22 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 23 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 24 | He had n't meant any harm but his few words had set her against him . |
| 25 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 26 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 27 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 28 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 29 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 30 | The War Councils of the gangs had chosen it at random . |