Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 2 | What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation . |
| 3 | Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across . |
| 4 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 5 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 6 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 7 | Lillee , Hall , Lindwall , Miller and Allen are greater names for the past ) ; and not only that this is the longest sentence I 've ever put together . |
| 8 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 9 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 10 | They stick me in some kind of waiting-room Upstairs , in a wing of the complex I 've never seen before . |
| 11 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 14 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 15 | Tonally the Atlantis is a different kettle of fish from any Rick I 've ever played before . |
| 16 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 17 | Ever since coming to Portugal she had stubbornly fought off her feelings of homesickness . |
| 18 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 19 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 20 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 21 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 22 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 23 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 24 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 25 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 26 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 27 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 28 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 29 | Some students will use the time to try out major speeches they have never attempted before , and find out where this may take them . |
| 30 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |