Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank ! |
| 2 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 3 | Amazingly , Brazil has excelled in the world of motor racing , producing not one , but two , but three world champions , all of whom have proved themselves to be great drivers . |
| 4 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 5 | Neither of them had liked him at all . |
| 6 | Neither of them had said anything like that to the other for years . |
| 7 | Neither of them had done anything like this before . |
| 8 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 9 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 10 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |
| 11 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 12 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 13 | Some of them have asked me about my parentage , some of them have asked me whether or not I am tinkering with the laws of God . |
| 14 | We are not so silent at home as this panegyric of yours has forced us to be here . ’ |
| 15 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |
| 16 | For one fleeting moment she had seen the temptation to kiss her in his eyes , and , gallingly , part of her had wanted him to . |
| 17 | It used to carry the barley to where you wanted it instead of you having to carry it on your shoulders . |
| 18 | Far more dramatic than rumours of who had offered what in terms of cash was the wholehearted support which the Daily Mail and Lord Rothermere gave the Fascists as 1934 began . |
| 19 | In the contortion of such reasoning , it is easy to lose sight of who has done what to whom and who in fact is the guilty party . |
| 20 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 21 | He carried an axe in order to be able to smash down illegal obstacles , but there is no mention of him having to use it in 1983 . |
| 22 | These parties of mine have become something of an institution , and I am expecting a large number of people to come in and give their comments on the results in various constituencies . |
| 23 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 24 | I think , I think er some friends of ours have got one like that . |
| 25 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 26 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 27 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 28 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 29 | The only human explanation was that one of us had said something in an unguarded moment . |
| 30 | Although there was a loud banging noise , it had been so regular that both of us had incorporated it into our dreams . |