Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 3 | Neither of them had liked him at all . |
| 4 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We are not so silent at home as this panegyric of yours has forced us to be here . ’ |
| 9 | For one fleeting moment she had seen the temptation to kiss her in his eyes , and , gallingly , part of her had wanted him to . |
| 10 | It used to carry the barley to where you wanted it instead of you having to carry it on your shoulders . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 17 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 18 | Although there was a loud banging noise , it had been so regular that both of us had incorporated it into our dreams . |
| 19 | I 'm not bothered about them you 've got tre you can go in the countryside and see that you 've got trees at well a lot of us have got them outside our own houses . |
| 20 | and as he 's done that the mates behind him have shot him with a real gun , his gone , his gone |
| 21 | Her belief in their abilities and the ideas she instilled into them had carried them through situations that they would otherwise have found impossible . |
| 22 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 23 | If it , it get , goes in you have to put it in that one |
| 24 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 25 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 26 | Without them having to ask us for the address . |
| 27 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 29 | Er , the cash flow is slightly crowded and to we 've split it into two slides . |
| 30 | The one beside him had accused him of ‘ grassing ’ and told him if he did not admit it he would have his face ripped open . |