Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We choose to be attractive , or dowdy , to enhance what nature has given us or to play it down ; we can dress in a way that we feel accords with our essential character or choose to create a fantasy image which bears little resemblance to the personality . |
| 2 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 3 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 4 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 5 | Master Buckingham has polished them and put them away , locked in a casket . |
| 6 | Anyone who has seen them or knows their whereabouts is asked to contact detectives at Craigavon 325144 . |
| 7 | If anybody has seen her or knows her whereabouts could you please contact B B C Radio York immediately all right ? |
| 8 | Sandra ( normally a quiet girl ) thumps James because he has jogged her and spoilt her drawing of a tuba . |
| 9 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 10 | As you know , Richard has done nothing but advise me that I must . |
| 11 | Since about 1985 , Hall has done nothing but tell us how great the Tories are : how they 've tapped the mood of the nation , set the agenda , turned us all into thrusting entrepreneurs and free-marketeers . |
| 12 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 13 | It has affected me and made me pause for thought . |
| 14 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 15 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
| 16 | James , one of the best writers who out of love for the old detective story has taken it and made something more of it , once summed it up very neatly . |
| 17 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 18 | Garry must be a much better lover than I would have thought him , or is it the legacy his godfather has left him that tempts you ? ’ |
| 19 | when he 'd hidden her and covered her over , he set out to find where she 'd lived . |
| 20 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 21 | The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow . |
| 22 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 23 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 24 | I was a new face in the orchestra , very inexperienced , I 'd never played the piece , though I 'd studied it and practised my part . |
| 25 | He 'd loved her and left her once , and if she gave him a chance he 'd do it again . |
| 26 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
| 27 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
| 28 | he 'd raped her and abused her from |
| 29 | You 'd have highlighted it and sent it back . |
| 30 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |