Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " 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 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 5 | ‘ Which is why the lady has already promised me the pleasure of her company tonight . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations . |
| 8 | He has now offered them the use of his white Rolls-Royce for the wedding as well as a Renault 19 for the honeymoon . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 12 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 14 | She 'd even given them the evidence herself . |
| 15 | Except she was saying that you 'd actually offered her the job . ’ |
| 16 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 17 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 20 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 21 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 22 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 23 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 24 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 25 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 28 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 29 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 30 | ‘ I know you 've always told us the truth — but what are you talking about ? ’ asked Rose . |