Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS .
2 ‘ The youngsters who visited your trailer were full of enthusiasm for all they had seen and done .
3 ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me .
4 ‘ Why , ’ she said sweetly , rising and picking up her clothes , and her bag , now empty of the articles which she had given J. D. O'Connor , ‘ tonight I am going to turn in early , read and rest — such a change after all I have done since this time last week .
5 As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me .
6 Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet .
7 Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet .
8 She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together .
9 ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ Julia said , thinking of all she had read and heard about the battle at Monte Cassino .
10 All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire .
11 ‘ We had 22 teachers in here last week watching the same rehearsal because their children are doing a project on it and as a result of that we have had 260 kids watching the rehearsal this week .
12 GEOFF BANKS : ’ Quite the most striking and uniquely designed piece of fun-wear I 've seen in years . ’
13 At a dinner to celebrate his 25 years , said of that he was an example to everybody in terms of hard work and leadership and recalled how in the snow of 1982 he had walked the five miles from his home and Playford to be at his desk at the normal time .
14 However , it soon emerged that the DES had different ideas on the management of public sector higher education and by the spring of 1981 it had become generally known that it favoured the virtual cutting of the link between the local authorities and the polytechnics and the colleges and institutes of higher education substantially involved in offering advanced further education .
15 By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators .
16 At any rate , in the spring of 1905 she had married Bruce in Gore and moved to his farm outside Edendale .
17 My own understanding of the role of services in the lives of disabled people has developed , and in the light of this I have reviewed my own working practices .
18 Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering .
19 The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent .
20 Told the women he was sharing a seat with that he 'd lost his money .
21 And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people .
22 And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe .
23 Precisely the opposite of all she 'd expected !
24 ‘ I 'd like to take you to bed now , but I know it 's out of the question after all I 've said .
25 ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’
26 It was probable that he had not , and best in any case not to go near ; soon he would miss her , want her back , and perhaps give his permission for the marriage despite all he had said to the contrary .
27 This year 's Third Focus is highlighting , through screenings and a discussion forum , the work of Indian film maker Ritwik Ghatak and the work of those he has inspired .
28 As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul .
29 Nevertheless , during the winter of 1909 she had become pregnant again at almost exactly the same time as Tina did with her second son , Stu .
30 as if he were a child of five she had reprimanded him , saying , ‘ Do n't be so personal ; she is Miss Crosbie .
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