Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 2 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 3 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 4 | I had hardly eaten anything the day before . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 've simply saved you the trouble , have n't I ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've completely forgotten what the ‘ electric tenor guitar ’ was … |
| 7 | I 've often wondered what the odds were against breaking that same pane twice in succession . |
| 8 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never had children , I 've never given myself the time and that 's a matter of some regret . |
| 10 | I 've never loved anyone the way I love you ! |
| 11 | As I say , I 've only met her the once . |
| 12 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 13 | I have just given you the traditional quantum mechanical recipe for calculating probabilities . |
| 14 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 15 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 16 | Others , like Hayling , obviously had talent , but none of them had even a fraction of the experience or ability which had twice earned him the Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 17 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 18 | Her heroine on the show is Lightning and she has already christened herself the junior version , Spark . |
| 19 | She has probably known what the doctor is going to say and may feel she has betrayed the family or patient and her relationship with them by not previously telling them the truth . |
| 20 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 21 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 22 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 26 | It was a monologue called ‘ Good News ’ , in which Beattie enthused down the phone at great length to a young man who 'd apparently done her the most enormous good turn . |
| 27 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 28 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've just landed yourself the best guide on the island , Miss Chester . |
| 30 | Er so can you remember from what you 've just read what the , what the command is ? |