Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I ruined the film I I thought the film had erm wound on finished and it had and it the batteries had gone flat so it had n't , so I opened it and I lost all the . |
| 2 | I myself felt the meeting had gone pretty well — the house itself was nice and we all seemed to get on very well together . |
| 3 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 4 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 5 | Heading backwards is useless ; the door by which they entered the room has disappeared . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke 's remarks followed a call by John Major for a public campaign against lawlessness in which he said the time had come to ‘ understand a little less and condemn a little more ’ . |
| 7 | It is usually they who made the choice to have and keep their babies , even though this does not always work out as happily or as easily as they may anticipate , and they deserve recognition and respect . |
| 8 | He told her he believed the Lord had sent her to teach and counsel a group . |
| 9 | Count Tolstoy argued that he should have libel damages waived against him because the man with whom he shared the debt had reached a separate agreement with Lord Aldington . |
| 10 | Anyone who entered the prison had to pay a fee and Athelstan recollected , that one of his parishioners , too poor to pay , had been beaten up for his poverty whilst Fitzosbert had stood by , smiling all the time . |