Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [vb pp] [adv] at " in BNC.

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1 Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain .
2 ‘ And you should watch that tongue , Margaret Howard , ’ Richie rasped , glaring at her now that she had hit unerringly at his weak spot .
3 ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity .
4 And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ?
5 She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party .
6 The the grades , you do not mark the essays that you 've put in at course work t erm you do n't mark the exam questions to the same rigorous standard .
7 Of course , the fact that you discover that you have lived before at all is exciting in itself , particularly if you are able to remember details which can later be corroborated .
8 The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams .
9 go down it 's it 's first left once you 've turned right at
10 Now , those of you who have not been able to watch a television set may not be aware of the really remarkable performances that we have seen here at Royal St. George 's on this beautiful English summer 's day .
11 Er and after all , if all the efforts that have been made that we have discussed just at , just now , er towards getting the money back are successful , well then the compensation that had been paid would be repaid .
12 She had found a good quick way of conveying the fact that something had arisen suddenly at her end that must claim her immediate attention ; a summons to go to the boss s office , the arrival of someone with whom she had an appointment , or letters to be signed to catch the afternoon post .
13 But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ?
14 David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street .
15 It made him feel that he had failed even at failing .
16 Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools
17 When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out .
18 If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’
19 At the moment I look as if someone has slashed wildly at me with a knife .
20 I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him .
21 However sound this may be , it is of course the case that many fellow citizens are themselves being denied this right by an economic climate which has made millions of people unemployed , and which has struck particularly at young people seeking manual work .
22 And you 've got in at least two of the last three presidents in President Clinton and President Reagan , two presidents who , who intuitively understand that , who absorbed that message , they are great persuaders .
23 Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers .
24 She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew .
25 It depends how often we can actually get the chiropodist , but she 's been very , very good recently and she 's come along at request , so we 're fortunate in that area .
26 Asked her if she 's signed on at Trevalle
27 The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet .
28 And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’
29 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
30 ‘ You have to wonder how some of the big names would have coped if they had taken over at Tranmere — or at this place four years ago . ’
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