Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The arrival of another SeaCat vessel in May certainly has not hit us the way some people expected . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you know God has not given you the spirit of fear but of love and a sound mind ? ’ |
| 4 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 5 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 6 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 7 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 8 | ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight . |
| 9 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 10 | He has now offered them the use of his white Rolls-Royce for the wedding as well as a Renault 19 for the honeymoon . |
| 11 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 12 | It is only now , in middle age , that joy is beginning to develop in her heart , as she begins to realize that God has truly given her the gift of life . |
| 13 | The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way . |
| 14 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 15 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 16 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 17 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 18 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 19 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 20 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 21 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 22 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 23 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 24 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 25 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 26 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 27 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 28 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 29 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 30 | ‘ I know you 've always told us the truth — but what are you talking about ? ’ asked Rose . |