Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 2 | Where they 'd all met with their initiation into his flamboyant world of sex . |
| 3 | They join the company from Maersk Company , where they had both worked as Dry Cargo Shipbrokers since 1989 . |
| 4 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 5 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 6 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 7 | It is doubtful if Marian and Allen would have found again the rock shelter where they had accidentally walked into the arms of the waiting verderers if Allen had not noticed his knife lying where Crane had kicked it . |
| 8 | THE Welsh team arrived in Edinburgh last night keen to milk the underdog tag for tomorrow 's Royal Bank international at Murrayfield , a ground where they have not won since 1985 . |
| 9 | It turned out that the encomium had little to do with these epics , but for his generous economic support of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute , where he had once worked as a lowly attendant . |
| 10 | The large statue of Chairman Mao which had dominated the quadrant outside the library , where he had once worked in his youth , suddenly ‘ disappeared ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 12 | Thus the service for King Charles the Martyr disappeared from the Book of Common Prayer ; at the same time his name was deleted from its calendar , where it had previously appeared on 30 January . |
| 13 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 14 | Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept . |
| 15 | How was I to combat it , physically , menially , and although I had n't thought of it in those terms , spiritually as well ? |
| 16 | Although I had n't come across this Siberian wader before , it does turn up in Shetland occasionally . |
| 17 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 18 | ‘ Although I 've never thought about it if I was doing a job down here . ’ |
| 19 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 20 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 21 | To find employment my father moved to Peterborough and although I have since lived at Rathcoole for a period I have found my childhood friends difficult to trace . |
| 22 | ( Although I have twice referred to Milton myself , I did so because I was grasping for images to convey something of the reality of the Devil . |
| 23 | Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence . |
| 24 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 25 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 26 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 27 | There were more living things than I had ever dreamt of ! |
| 28 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 29 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 30 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |