Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assume I must have made it because when the noise of movement outside wakes me four hours later that is where I am . |
| 2 | He said he was not satisfied that the fire had been started deliberately , let alone who might have started it and that the scientific evidence was ‘ underlined by a number of assumptions which have been shown to be totally false ’ . |
| 3 | Close advisors were also thought to have warned him that unless a compromise solution was found , crucial funding for the IMF-approved economic adjustment programme would be severed and the country would be diplomatically isolated . |
| 4 | An aid specialist had told me that before the Gulf crisis about thirty per cent of the rubbish collected by the Baghdad municipality was food scraps . |
| 5 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 6 | She had repeated it as though the word were a new one . |
| 7 | Somehow he had acquired it and when the need arose he would use it . |