Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] have [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either other areas where it 's very specialized and you had to look up words , or other difficulties with the |
| 2 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 3 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 4 | You have interfered in the situation in a way which may be — I do n't necessarily say it is — very dangerous and you have to think out in detail how that is going to work . |
| 5 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 6 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 7 | It 's pitch dark and you have to stand up dead straight and if you wobble at all you get spiked either by the glass on the walls or the nails on the door . |
| 8 | Carter , who did not appear on stage himself , later said : ‘ The idiots who run pool in this country have had 20 years to get it right and they 've messed up . |
| 9 | I had information he was going protectionist and I had to get in quick . |
| 10 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm telling you we work hard , I know we can get better organized , but we do work very hard and we have to work on so many fronts . |
| 12 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
| 13 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 14 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |
| 15 | Yes , this has always been a problem , but it has become worse recently , I am afraid , because of the people who have been made redundant and who have come back from Germany . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's great and it has opened up the race again , ’ said Mr Holding , 23 . |
| 17 | I was there a couple of weeks and the record business went bust and she had to close down . |
| 18 | A Liberty 's staff member said : ‘ We were told a phone call was made from the Palace saying the Queen was not happy and it had to come down . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 21 | It 's on full and it 's gone out . |
| 22 | ‘ The weather was really hot and we had to get up at six in the morning to do the filming , ’ he recalls . |
| 23 | But for those departments and individuals who received them , they have been vital and they have paid off in ways not expected at the time of the award . |
| 24 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 25 | The band were still distressed at the demise because their working relationship had been excellent and they had built up good friendships with the staff , and did not want to seen them lose their jobs . |