Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
| 2 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 3 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 4 | The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger . |
| 5 | ‘ 'T WAS like nothing I 've ever felt before either . |
| 6 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 7 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 8 | Our young labourer Kevin , whom I 've not mentioned for a while , gets the strenuous pick and shovel jobs . |
| 9 | These are evident in the projects of a wide variety of film-makers , artists , novelists , poets and photographers , some of whom I have already referred to . |
| 10 | I replaced a Night commander who I understood had ditched , or so it seemed — his name was Sqn Ldr Leigh-Smith whom I have already spoken of . |
| 11 | Mark , whom I have already quoted in my discussion of the lab work , was a final-year student at A who , although he had obtained A level grades of AAAB , eventually failed his degree . |
| 12 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
| 13 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 14 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 15 | ‘ The police directed me straight here , and apart from them I have n't spoken to anyone . ’ |
| 16 | Er I I 've already reported on the maternity leave cover provisions . |
| 17 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 18 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 19 | I I had n't thought of that but er I mean it will be the group kind of er lecturing I mean it wo n't be lecturing to er a full meeting all day . |
| 20 | oh I I had n't thought of that |
| 21 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 22 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 23 | There could be a call from someone you have n't heard from in some time . |
| 24 | This is according to someone we 've never heard of before and hopefully will never hear of again , a Viscount Ullswater . |
| 25 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 26 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 27 | In my experience people will forgive a lot of things , but not being beaten at their own game by someone they 've always looked upon as a caricature . ’ |
| 28 | Almost three-quarters of the men in our sample fantasize about having sex with someone they have not slept with . |
| 29 | Seventy-two per cent of the men in our sample say they fantasize about someone they have n't slept with , and 32% of them find their thoughts turning to sex when they 're at work . |
| 30 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |