Example sentences of "the [n mass] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ed King was busily erecting the cage we 'd had in Covent Garden ; it was proving to be worth every penny of the £250 we 'd paid for it . |
| 2 | The sign was in the whole thing , not just the unexpected ferocity of the buck I 'd killed , but also in my furious , almost unthinking response and the fate of the innocent rabbits who took the brunt of my wrath . |
| 3 | I trekked the length and breadth of Charing Cross Road and the surrounding area when I bought mine in ‘ 68 , and I still remember it was in a different league to everything else , although it crept into the £50 plus bracket , rather than the £40 I had saved . |
| 4 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 5 | He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs . |
| 6 | The director offered Susan a refund for the £40 she had originally paid and free treatment until her hair was put right . |
| 7 | The Pinchgut Track spiralled above us , 3,000ft of ascent on top of the 1,500ft we had climbed from the lake . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been extremely selective in the sheep we 've chosen . |
| 9 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 10 | Inventor Claude Tardieu , an engineer and former rower , of Accastillage & Greements du Sud-Ouest , was reluctant to go into too much detail about the Agsostart Kano but he was keen to find buyers to recover the $100,000 it has cost to produce the 18 prototypes . |
| 11 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 12 | ‘ But now it is up to the Catholic officials and the county to find the money from the £243,000 I have set aside for church school repairs . |
| 13 | On their arrival back in Bogota , the team started on initial analysis of the data they had collected , prior to their return to the UK where they completed a full report . |
| 14 | Generally there should be some question which asks pupils to synthesise the data they have gathered at different parts of the site . |
| 15 | The data we have examined suggest that the poll tax was not itself the prime cause of the variation in results either between types of local authority or individual councils . |
| 16 | In contrast , the data we have on the somatosensory cortex indicate that all of the areas specialize in some way and that there is no generalist area . |
| 17 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 18 | We have compiled a register of the data we have received showing the purported performance of your local councils . |
| 19 | Based on the data we have now , one can not draw any conclusions about long-XXXX term trends because of the natural fluctuations " , he said . |
| 20 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 21 | Some of the da all of the data I 've g I can get I will get . |
| 22 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 23 | The fossils that they can see in such cores are mainly the fossils of single celled organisms , radiolarians , blobigurina , things of that kind , and the data I 've seen published on this actually are pretty gradualist in their interpretation . |
| 24 | For example , it can find and list all the occurrences of a particular symbol or sequence of symbols in the data you have fed to it ; it can make frequency counts of phonemes and print out a list of particular CV patterns . |
| 25 | So one of the big problems with an historical figure , is that erm , you do n't even have that much data to go on , the data you have is gon na inevitably be , be selective and limited . |
| 26 | This turned out to be P2653 , the aircraft I had ferried to Malta in June of the previous year . |
| 27 | Nor would the £1,500 I had borrowed last that long . |
| 28 | The tent might blow away , I might get bitten by a snake , or I might not be able to pay back the £1,500 I had borrowed to finance the trip . |
| 29 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the 5m we 've come up with so far ) . |
| 30 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |