Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 2 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 3 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 4 | All the evidence suggests that no-one has properly quantified the cost of educating end users in all the user-hostile features of a dumb 3270 attached to a mainframe application , let alone any of the other hidden costs of the mainframe . |
| 5 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 6 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 7 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 8 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 9 | Erm you 've put me on the spot I do n't I do n't I 've really I 've really got no preference on them . |
| 10 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 11 | The increase in complaints may have something to do with the fact that we believe that it is important that if someone has not received the care to which he thinks he is entitled from the NHS , his right to complain should not be a well-kept secret , as has too often happened in the past . |
| 12 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 13 | I must have made thousands over those university years , much to the annoyance of my own family , as I 'd rarely made the effort for them . |
| 14 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 15 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 16 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 17 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 18 | Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball |
| 19 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 20 | and I 'd just peeled an orange to be honest |
| 21 | I 'd just approached a woman ( who , it emerged , could speak only Mandarin ) , to ask her about the joys of cycling . |
| 22 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 23 | I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck . |
| 24 | I 'd rather got the impression that you were coming round to quite enjoying working for me . ’ |
| 25 | Her leaning presence was deliberate , challenging : I think I 'd even felt the play of her breath on my neck . |
| 26 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |
| 27 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 28 | I 'd got a baby — forty-two hours in labour , but I 'd finally got a baby . |
| 29 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 30 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |