Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [pron] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’ |
| 2 | But the more profiles are concerned with qualities of character and extra-curricular activities , the more intrusive of privacy they seem ; and , perhaps more relevant to the present enquiry , the less they have to do with the actual school curriculum . |
| 3 | The longer I have spent in politics , the more imperative this has seemed to me . |
| 4 | ‘ It is the nearest I have come to being smacked . |
| 5 | Each time the yen slips , the larger these dollar-based assets loom in the banks ' balance sheets — and the more they have to scrounge for additional yen-based equity at home in order to prevent their capital-adequacy figures from slipping back below the BIS requirement . |
| 6 | ‘ The more we have wandered over this interesting district , ’ Gordon enthuses , ‘ the more we have felt and appreciated its numerous charms . |
| 7 | ‘ We did not realise what it meant and the more I have listened to them it is fair comment that they are saying it is too much . |
| 8 | But the more I have thought about those comments , the wiser I think he was . |
| 9 | I had , however , underrated the extent and sincerity of her indignation , and the more I have thought of it , the more I have thought how justified she was . |
| 10 | Despite blatantly courting affiliation with the drugs'n'rock'n'drugs set , the band have a healthy , fresh-faced energy which suggests the closest they have come to cold turkey is on Boxing Day . |
| 11 | Despite blatantly courting affiliation with the drugs'n'rock'n'drugs set , the band have a healthy , fresh-faced energy which suggests the closest they have come to cold turkey is on Boxing Day . |
| 12 | For Machu Picchu is the closest I have come to a Mecca , a once-in-my-lifetime destination and , like the route to Mecca , each Inca trail has deep and hidden roots in a life long before one pins Cuzco on the map . |