Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They would n't have taken 'im even if I 'd been willing to part with 'im , me being a widow . |
| 2 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 3 | I do however think I have been able to help with the emotional problems of the artists here , especially the big dilemma of whether to have kids or not . |
| 4 | I should like to put to my hon. Friend the Minister one or two points which , due to his courtesy , I have been able to discuss with him briefly during the past few days . |
| 5 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 6 | She had been able to cope with the sale of her house . |
| 7 | She did n't tell him that was the only way she had been able to cope with his absence , by blocking him out completely and refusing even to acknowledge his existence . |
| 8 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 9 | The Great Idea had become a major disaster , she had been lucky to escape with her life . |
| 10 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 11 | All I would say that er notwithstanding the conservation constraints within the city centre , we have not found this policy erm unhelpful as it were , we have been able to conform with the terms of this policy and allow appropriate levels of er commercial development within the city centre . |
| 12 | ‘ This means that we have been able to deal with the cash position , which earlier in the year had reached crisis proportions . |
| 13 | ‘ As a result of very careful housekeeping , we have been able to deal with our list of creditors and to bring the cash problem under firm control . |
| 14 | One thing parents ca n't afford — especially our sort of parent — is that the whisper might be put about that they had been willing to toy with their own children 's safety . |
| 15 | ‘ It is a tribute to the French people here that they have been able to work with customers and develop such confidence in Grimsby 's service . |
| 16 | It is an experience they have been prepared to share with other communities , and Jim Killeen has spoken against mining at meetings in Westport , Co . |
| 17 | However , it is not clear from the information presented by Burr how well he has been able to cope with the irregular morphological structure of English . |
| 18 | It has been necessary to look with open eyes so we would not see 1700 as a pastoral idyll or an untroubled world . |
| 19 | While every effort has been made to express the ideas in everyday language , it has been impossible to dispense with some scientific terms . |
| 20 | It has been possible to continue with the South African bursaries programme . |
| 21 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 22 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |
| 23 | It said it had been unable to establish with sufficient certainty which of the inconsistent statements made by Mr Clark was not true . |
| 24 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 25 | But she could still recall , quite vividly , how it had been when she and Tom had married , just as soon as he had been able to dispense with his crutches : their brief but ecstatic honeymoon , the way he had so gently and expertly initiated her into the pleasures of sex and how , in spite of all his subsequent straying , she had remained faithful , forgiving and in love with him , in her own way , right to the end . |
| 26 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 27 | He had been bitter to start with , but love was blind . |
| 28 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |