Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I must also admit that I 'd lost faith at this goal ! |
2 | ‘ I had left school at 15 with no qualifications and always done dressmaking , but I never enjoyed it . |
3 | I 've been going to the cinema ever since I was 7 years old and I 've seen fights at many films . |
4 | ‘ I 've worn costume at Carnival time , ’ he said smoothly , ducking the question . |
5 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
6 | She has created records at most of the bookshops she has attended . |
7 | Landing the presenter 's job is not 30-year-old Rosemarie 's only good fortune — she has found love at last . |
8 | ‘ So you 've remembered Salome at last , have you ? ’ |
9 | ‘ I would n't say we had bought things at knock-down prices , ’ he says . |
10 | We had to start work at 6 o'clock . |
11 | She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet . |
12 | During the summit Colombia and Chile announced that they had restored relations at consular level with Cuba . |
13 | In the Moray Firth , they placed a ‘ headline barrier ’ , from which they had suspended reflectors at two-metre intervals . |
14 | Cats have long memories and if they have suffered pain at male hands they may hate all males for months afterwards , sometimes literally for years . |
15 | The confident person is happy to try new things because in the past they have had success at similar related tasks . |
16 | He has won titles at two different clubs — Everton and Arsenal — and to do so at a third would be unique . |
17 | He has put growth at one per cent for next year . |
18 | He has found contentment at last with English-born actress Frances Fisher . |
19 | Today he had seen violence at first hand . |
20 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
21 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
22 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
23 | He had left school at sixteen to make money . |
24 | But I think that he would probably agree , and I know he 's made comments at various times on this subject , about er the grass that is left behind and it is always a problem I think throughout the county erm where grass is cut and then spread around . |