Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone .
2 I 'm much more confident about my ability and I have learned a lot .
3 This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with .
4 I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it .
5 He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ .
6 ‘ It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said .
7 She looked through my chest-of-drawers after she had decided that the grey tweed would do .
8 I always play for my country when I have a chance , ’ Ballesteros , who last played for Spain in the World Cup in 1977 , added .
9 Erm there are networks throughout the U K and Europe erm for my company and I have to make sure that er all the telecommunication systems are up and running .
10 But I could n't let my mother be here , and then it was more for my brother because he had a wife and he it was more for him to be working than er for me really , cos I come to pension age then you see .
11 It is perhaps better for my soul that I have been , instead , undistinguished and obscure .
12 Would you have asked for my investment if you had n't convinced yourself we were going to get married ? ’
13 IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge .
14 A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation .
15 ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it .
16 Bourne , who worked as a driver and minder to for Heidari , was said to have admitted after his arrest that he had thrown the liquid into Michelle 's face , but had thought it was ‘ soapy water ’ .
17 Let someone else look after your sister while you have a few hours ’ extra beauty sleep . ’
18 What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger .
19 They was telling , telling us about their son cos he 's got erm a Nintendo game system , same as
20 Later she became so paranoid about their power that she had her room searched for bugs .
21 What crass hypocrisy , pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction !
22 So insecure about her sexuality that she 'd eaten too much and got fat .
23 There had been fears for her life but she had recovered .
24 Earlier she had , despite Newman 's warning , made a brief call to INCUBUS headquarters , leaving a message for her boss that she 'd left for England .
25 He had been so blinded by his need for her light that he had failed to see how deeply he stood in her shadow , and his work had been frustrated thereby .
26 I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you .
27 He had taken no precautions during their love-making but she had assured him that she had that under control .
28 He leaned closer still , his warm breath ruffling through her hair and she had to fight against an almost overwhelming desire to lay her head on his broad shoulder and feel his arms close around her .
29 However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning .
30 Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes .
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