Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but looking at college like I 've come from school like , and I never liked it at school . |
| 2 | Months later it had arrived in the post and since then it had stood in its velvet frame , beside her mother 's bed . |
| 3 | For nearly six months now he had gone to Father Michael at St Cunegonde 's for long , thrilling discussions about whether he had a vocation for the priesthood . |
| 4 | Since becoming vice-chairman four months ago he has thought of changing it to Owen More Money . |
| 5 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 6 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 7 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 8 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 9 | In January also he had to speak at Pusey House in Oxford on " The Lambeth Conference and Education " , but one student 's disappointment at his performance on this occasion suggests the strain and lack of preparedness which were forced on him during this period : " In questions Mr Eliot was most feeble and hesitant , humming and hawing much and throwing back the questions with " Is that not what I said ? " or " Does it not prove my point ? " |
| 10 | In confession now he has spoken of but one blow , and I am convinced he struck but once . ’ |
| 11 | If taxpayers wish to make gifts to such trusts then they have to look for their exemptions elsewhere . |
| 12 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 13 | Give her the money like she 's got past me she said are you my grandad are my Clayton 's dad ? |
| 14 | A smoothly manipulative svengali- ish figure when it comes to business , he gives the ‘ Karl treatment ’ to new models and muses , as well as to fashion labels , making us aware of the possibilities only he has seen beneath the exterior . |
| 15 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 16 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 17 | And then you 've consulted somebody else and if the say no go ahead and sell the shares and if two days later they 've gone through the roof it 's unfortunate . |
| 18 | For two days now he had sat in Isobel 's garage during most of school hours and planned his new book . |
| 19 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 20 | Two days ago they had arrived at Palma airport , Steve elated at the prospect of a couple of weeks ' work in his own special paradise place on earth and Ruth stuffed with foreboding . |
| 21 | But two days ago I had to move to my sister 's old bedroom , because some men are mending my bedroom wall , and last night I heard that whistle again ! |
| 22 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 23 | Two days ago she had stood in line in the drafting office at the training depot , wondering where she would be sent . |
| 24 | Fifteen years ago they 'd decided to be circumspect , they 'd brought their love affair to an end because the baby had been born . |
| 25 | Since moving in seven years ago they have put in new windows , new plumbing , sinks and lavatories . |
| 26 | He might be a fat , wealthy merchant now but fifteen years ago he had fought as a knight , shoulder to shoulder with men who feared nothing on earth . |
| 27 | But since his arrival at the theatre five years ago he has worked with the artistic director , Roger Redfarn , to make full use of his evident skills in business management . |
| 28 | Until 200 years ago it had stood in the Berlin Stadtpalais for which Fiedler had also executed the panelling , flooring and cupboards . |
| 29 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 30 | Twenty-eight days earlier he had travelled to Dublin to transfer that sum to a second numbered account in Liechtenstein . |