Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water . |
| 2 | Even though there was a sharp frost outside , couples could be seen stealing away from the dance and returning a half-hour or so later , always a little crestfallen until they had danced again , danced their way back into good cheer . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 4 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 5 | In L " Estrange v Graucob ( [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) Scrutton LJ said that " When a document containing contractual terms is signed then , in the absence of fraud or , I will add , misrepresentation , the party signing it is bound , and it is wholly immaterial whether he has read the document or not . " |
| 6 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 7 | She was only sorry that she had demonstrated exactly how vulnerable she was to him . |
| 8 | Would it be possible to find out what Priscilla 's results were because she 's had a urine test and she 's extremely sore and they 've asked for another urine test , and I 'm |
| 9 | ‘ You may ask about his daily routine when abroad ; he attends matins at church and priestly services either alone or with a small following , and worships so devoutly that he has set an example to all Italians of the honour and reverence that should be paid to bishops and clergy . |
| 10 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 11 | The shift is so striking that it has led one commentator ( Young 1984 : 22 ) to talk of an explosion of ‘ civic assertiveness ’ . |
| 12 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 13 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 14 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 15 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 16 | when I speak about it I get so upset that they 've got three or four and they ca n't ! |
| 17 | Her mum Pat , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky has been so upset that she has had two epileptic fits since Penny disappeared . |
| 18 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 19 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 20 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 21 | But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) . |
| 22 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 23 | Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo . |
| 24 | Even the house , with its big grand rooms and dark paintings of Arbuthnots , seemed less strange once she had altered the bedroom and rearranged the study into a cosy sitting room where she and Philip spent their evenings together . |
| 25 | The yew trees in the Grove were dark green and so old that they had grown twisted and lumpy , like arthritic fingers . |
| 26 | The walls had long ago disappeared under a solid mass of posters and playbills , some of them so old that they 'd faded completely . |
| 27 | It was as if he were gazing into heaven , and Agatha was n't so old that she 'd forgotten what that felt like . |
| 28 | Giles 's motive in telling her of his expectations was so transparent that she had lost interest in him . |
| 29 | He says drug corruption is now so prevalent that it has tainted the assembly , the courts , and press and television . |
| 30 | This perspective is so prevalent that it has spread far beyond medical , health and welfare agencies to influence fundamentally most people 's approaches to Disabled people . |