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 .
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