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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I began a slow jog , but after a quarter of a mile , it seemed that my feet had gained weight and that somebody was sitting on my chest .
2 And making a fuss of me because they knew that my stitches had burst .
3 There had n't been a show , I had no contractions and I could n't be sure that my waters had broken . ’
4 She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me .
5 Mum takes me only because I mentioned to her that my periods have stopped .
6 As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour .
7 Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them .
8 So I like friendship , and think it is necessary to keep a good character I know that my friends have improved my personality .
9 I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got
10 My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head .
11 I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them .
12 Yesterday Fr Buckley said : ‘ I can confirm that my solicitors have issued writs for libel against Fr Clery .
13 I mention this , as I am planning to visit you next week , to continue our discussion on euthanasia ( although I hope you will not be disappointed to discover that my views have altered ) .
14 You will gather from that thumbnail sketch , Mr. Speaker , that my constituents have had no problem in following my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister 's recent exhortations to create a classless society .
15 I trust that my revelations have amused you .
16 Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless .
17 At last I felt that my expectations had done some good to someone .
18 I confirm that my officials have written to the chief executive of the SDA to strengthen that point .
19 The former guerrilla group Alfaro Vive , Carajo ! announced on Oct. 21 that it had disbanded and that its members had joined the ruling Democratic Left party ( ID ) .
20 Greenpeace said that its members had found rusty drums — labelled " industrial goods for further use " — at a barracks in Rovno , Ukraine , containing liquid mercury , old paints made with heavy metals , pure DDT , hydrogen cyanide and other hazardous chemicals .
21 Fanny Kemble , the Victorian actress , thought that tourism had ruined Switzerland , that its hotels had become like gin palaces and that the effect of special tourist events amid the sublime scenery was very vulgar : ‘ … bread and butter , and pâté de foie gras , and marmalade and jam , and caviare , one on top of the other ’ .
22 The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it .
23 Although the Taligent Inc environment is not due to ship until late 1994 or early 1995 , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp joint venture faces heightened competition from Next Computer Inc now that its options have shrunk to making a success of its NextStep environment , and a hot wind from Cairo — Microsoft Corp 's Cairo , that is , is blowing down their neck .
24 The separatist Front for the Liberation of Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) claimed on June 16 that its forces had killed 118 Angolan government soldiers in an attack on June 6 , two days before the Pope 's visit to the territory .
25 Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire .
26 THE Government is not backing down on re-organisation of the Nature Conservancy Council and Countryside Commissions , despite the drubbing that its proposals have received from virtually every conversation organisation in Britain .
27 In further disclosures on Aug. 6 , the government admitted that its scientists had extracted " tiny amounts " of plutonium .
28 The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants .
29 The talks came to grief after the separatists insisted that the government , or perhaps the ruling Socialist party , should publicly acknowledge that its representatives had agreed to negotiate with ETA on the Basque country 's political future .
30 Surveys along the north-east coast have shown that its numbers have fallen by half over the last decade , to today 's figure of around 100 .
  Next page