Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My surveyors have drawn up the plans and it 's going to be virtually mid-centre of the site . ’ |
| 2 | Erm well it makes sense but I 'm , I 'm glad you cos I mean my bonuses have gone down , I mean they have n't gone up then why is that ? |
| 3 | As Gower tried to bury the misery of rejection in the preparations for his wedding to Thorrun Nash in Winchester Cathedral in a fortnight , he admitted : ‘ My words have come back to haunt me . ’ |
| 4 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 5 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 6 | My , my years have caught up with me you know . |
| 7 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 8 | Now , for a long time , because my children have grown up , and I do n't see them being , being young men , when the young men get married , you , mothers do n't see them , so I 'm on my own , and it 's , erm , I ca n't rely on that for company at all . |
| 9 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 10 | I could accept the decision by the Referees ' Committee if my marks had gone down . |
| 11 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 12 | LIZ 'S numbed brain means her reactions have slowed down , her balance is affected and her perception of time begins to become inaccurate . |
| 13 | But the US said its satellites had ruled out the claim . |
| 14 | For us the important point is that the timescale on which continents have drifted about is the same slow timescale on which animal lineages have evolved , and we can not ignore continental drift if we are to understand the patterns of animal evolution on those continents . |
| 15 | Laboratory studies in which researchers have set up tasks in which failure could be induced experimentally have indicated that depressed people have a tendency to blame themselves if they get the task wrong , and the ease of the task if they get it right . |
| 16 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 17 | Suddenly she lifted her hand and examined the brown , greasy deposit that her fingers had picked up and grimaced in disgust . |
| 18 | She moistened her lips , feeling the raised and tender flesh where her teeth had bitten through . |
| 19 | There are even the odd cases of women who refuse to get out of bed until their husbands have brought up their morning paper horoscopes ! |
| 20 | Her voice was shaky , her eyes had become round and dull with astonishment . |
| 21 | She rubbed her face and when she dropped her hands her eyes had welled up with tears . |
| 22 | Her mouth was open and her eyes had rolled back . |
| 23 | Now their insurers have paid out between £500 and £41,000 to about 140 victims . |
| 24 | Their signals have paid off . |
| 25 | Those responsible for the access funds at Dundee university wrote to me to say that their funds had run out even before the summer recess had begun . |
| 26 | At one time Camille and her peers had moved around like soldier ants devouring all in their path . |
| 27 | St Alban 's never had a player capped , though many of their lads have gone on to be decapitated , especially in internationals . |
| 28 | It is funny because their lives have crossed over to what mine used to be . |
| 29 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 30 | Her parents had retired out here so happily , three years ago . |