Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As things have turned out it has n't proved to be a serious drawback so far ; and your mother , who has temporarily left home , is very happy for me . |
| 2 | Dalglish , who has already spent more than £10 million , will have to pay £500,000 if Risom arrives at Ewood Park . |
| 3 | It was set up in conjunction with Swiss entrepreneur Niels Rasmussen , owner of Nercom Informatik , who has also set up Goldmine Technologies AG in Zug , Switzerland ( UX No 374 ) . |
| 4 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 5 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 6 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 7 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 8 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 9 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 10 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 11 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 12 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 13 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 14 | There 's hardly a wildlife film-maker who has n't become intimately acquainted with at least one species of tick , and as ticks prefer the softer , warmer parts of the body , the acquaintance is sometimes very intimate indeed . |
| 15 | Turns out — and I learned this not through Miguel but our second guide who has n't said much most of the trip — that thkarni is the Indians ' name — well , one of their many names , to be precise — for you-know-what . |
| 16 | Any character who has n't hung on at least 8 feet up the stairs ( 9 feet for a Dwarf , 10 for a Halfling ) will be submerged below the filth . |
| 17 | ‘ We came to meet someone who has n't turned up . |
| 18 | Maggie is one of the senior advisers , one of the successful senior advisers at the Brecon branch and the chap next to her , who has n't turned up yet is , |
| 19 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 20 | The seminar organizers are Robert Osborne , who 's just crept in , Judy Rainer — I wonder where Judy 's sitting — with the hand Ivor Bertram who has n't arrived yet , he 'll be arriving at lunchtime , and myself . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean you thought you 'd like to drive around in your car all afternoon just in case there 's anyone in the entire state who has n't drooled all over it yet — that 's O K , Ryan , that 's cool , I can handle that , I 'm sure you and your Porsche will be very happy and I would n't dream of fucking up your beautiful relationship . ’ |
| 22 | Dodemaide , the Sheffield Shield player of the year , has been recalled after a three-year absence , along with Matthews , who has not played internationally since last year 's tour of the West Indies . |
| 23 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 24 | Not if I dare say so , if it is an opinion expressed by an onlooker who has not experienced either hearing loss or the unhelpful reactions of the unenlightened . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Diana , who has not figured regularly in up-market births col-umns since the Fifties , again fails to make a mark . |
| 26 | A runaway is a young person , aged under 17 years or in local authority care , who has either left home ( or residential care ) of their own accord but without agreement or is forced to leave , and is missing for one or more nights . |
| 27 | It was an interpretation problem , sir , with a rather rum Nandi interpreter who has since run away . |
| 28 | Lorcan Wyer who has since gone on to become one of the most stylish jockeys in England was associated with most of the Scott winners in those days . |
| 29 | In the first edition I felt I owed a debt of gratitude to my old teacher , Professor Geoffrey Lampe , who has since died so courageously of cancer , to close friends , the Revd. |
| 30 | Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work . |