Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [subord] [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joshua , in order to be friendly , asked Harvey if he had heard of Clemenceau 's remark about Lloyd George , made at the Paris Peace Conference after the Kaiser 's War ? |
| 2 | I asked Frankie when I had pushed through to him . |
| 3 | In a moment I will produce the recipe — and please , will readers do their best to suspend disbelief until they have tried it ? — but one of the main points about this recipe is that it taught me ( for after all , one does not buy lobsters all that often ) that anisette is , improbably but incontrovertibly , a quite magical ingredient in fish dishes and sauces . |
| 4 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 5 | However , the changes will not affect foreigners unless they have lived more than 20 years in the principality . |
| 6 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 7 | he said oh do n't want speakers cos I 've got them there |
| 8 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 9 | I invariably gain weight if I 've eaten rice the evening before because it retains water and is often served with spicy food which is dehydrating . |
| 10 | [ He says ] moreover that the testator 's intention , which is particularly important in trusts , supports this opinion , and that the testator would not , after this preamble , have added objects if he had wanted only cash to be paid . |
| 11 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 12 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 13 | I 'll let I 'll let you know Monday if I 've got trouble with babysitters . |
| 14 | We 'd have mixed appetites if you 'd given it any thought . |
| 15 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 16 | People must realise that local authorities will pursue non-payers until they have secured payment , however long it takes . |
| 17 | So they , they have that , they , they say they do n't need unions because they 've got a good working relationship . |
| 18 | And this Mr was so taken aback , by me going in and asking for a job , and they 'd always advertised in the paper before , that he said , Well , she must want work if she 's gone after it . |
| 19 | I think he was nonplussed when I did but , after all , I 'm usually given lunch when I 've preached . |
| 20 | On many occasions I asked Alf if he had taken the money to pay the debt but he never did ! |
| 21 | I especially hate pubs since I 've given up smoking ( the spurning of which addiction went completely unnoticed by our friend Stuart ) . |
| 22 | It seemed ages since he 'd had anything to eat . |
| 23 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
| 24 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
| 25 | Overweight people , particularly the heavily overweight , rarely stop eating until they have finished everything on the plate . |
| 26 | Displacing Sylvie before she had come to terms with her . |
| 27 | The last tour of India was cancelled when they refused to allow Graham Gooch to lead England because he had toured South Africa . |
| 28 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 29 | Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We must return home , ’ she told Anna when they had made the daisy chain and hung it around the little girl 's neck . |