Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 2 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 3 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 4 | And where they have to come out onto the road before the Shilton dip , where they actually come from Scrubs Lane onto the road , it 's on a right angle bend and , you know , we 've had several mishaps down there . |
| 5 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 6 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 7 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 8 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 9 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 10 | Where it 's made up of thirty percent commission and the bonuses . |
| 11 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 12 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 13 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 14 | Funnily enough I believed that , but not Santa Claus , but my parents seemed to believe it , so I had to go along with them . |
| 15 | If I took the food away from her too often , though , there was a danger she would lose interest , so I had to give in to her a few times . |
| 16 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 17 | " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat . |
| 18 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 19 | However , I have now decided that most of the new music out there is n't worth listening to , so I 've got back to reading about music in preference to listening to it . |
| 20 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 21 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 22 | Except you 've gone in as ins insurance clerk cos we could n't , we could n't decide what you were . |
| 23 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 24 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 25 | Although you have to put up with the pain for a shorter time , you may not have any real build-up to it — suddenly , strong contractions hit you — so it 's difficult to pace yourself and put into practice the breathing exercises you rehearsed so carefully at antenatal classes . |
| 26 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 27 | When we were married , Jane was still an undergraduate at Westfield College in London , so she had to go up to London during the week . |
| 28 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 29 | ‘ So you 've opted out of the war effort , ’ he greeted her nastily , ‘ to go swanning all over the Pacific ? ’ |
| 30 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |