Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Cross , 73 , the wife of the war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross , was repeatedly struck with antique fire irons in the shop in Pimlico , south London , where she had worked part-time for ten years . |
| 2 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 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 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 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 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 11 | Where it 's made up of thirty percent commission and the bonuses . |
| 12 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 15 | " 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 19 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 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 | Given a new name , she got a new nationality , new passport — a new life that was far more fundamental a change than she had managed just by defecting . |
| 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 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 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 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |