Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this study the biweekly bulletin Hue and Cry , which listed descriptions of persons for whom magistrates had issued warrants , provides the necessary data . |
| 2 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 3 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 4 | Adherence to the limit tends to be checked only by chance observation from police cars or by targeting a specific street about which residents have complained . |
| 5 | Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision . |
| 6 | On Nov. 15 the Senate judiciary committee voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General [ see p. 38521 ] following hearings during which Democrats had characterized the Bush administration 's approach to BCCI as lethargic and piecemeal . |
| 7 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 8 | Family responsibility to care for its members has become shared with health and education authorities , social security and social services to a greater extent than ever before , and there has always been a concern that the welfare state may undermine family ties and produce welfare dependency . |
| 9 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 10 | Many of the clients who depended on him for their pensions have had to go back to work after their life savings were wiped out . |
| 11 | Suddenly in the 1930s the demand for their goods had become much less . |
| 12 | Try to remember anything for which others have praised or criticized you . |
| 13 | The French School is obviously the one for which prices have increased most ( 14% per year ) , while Italian and Flemish-Dutch drawings have increased with 10.5% and 9% per year respectively . |
| 14 | ‘ We took the axe to the cold rock face of socialism and we hewed out the secret for which generations had searched in vain — private wealth and public welfare growing together . ’ |
| 15 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
| 16 | Certain of the services implicit in a wholesaler function , and for which publishers have agreed to pay higher rate of discounts , have been eroded over the years , and we wish to see them reinstated . |
| 17 | Even the perfectionists were impressed and admitted they came away with their tails between their legs having learnt a great lesson about false pride . |
| 18 | The heat smouldering between their bodies had intensified , and with a light-headed sensation she felt him crush her convulsively against the lean hardness of his hips , and felt the powerful stirrings of male arousal , triggering a small explosion of response inside her . |
| 19 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 20 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 21 | ‘ Most of my dreams have come true . ’ |
| 22 | Are you trying to tell me that some of my prisoners have escaped without me noticing ? ’ |
| 23 | And so many of my friends have said the same . |
| 24 | ‘ A lot of my friends have left , but I do n't know how many because many phones have been cut . |
| 25 | I 've a lot , a lot of my friends have got big dogs and they say oh they will jump up and I say squeeze her paws , it usually works |
| 26 | I have some dark red astilbes which lots of my friends have admired . |
| 27 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 28 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 29 | Some of my friends has got silver in . |
| 30 | Another group of my agents have toured the car hire firms , using the same tactics . |