Example sentences of "[pron] and have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 2 | Zaidie 's deposition , it should be added , contained a statement that about 20 or 21 December 1986 , on Zaidie 's return from his honeymoon in Miami , the defendant had telephoned him and had said he was sorry for the threats he had made against the lives of Zaidie and Paulette . |
| 3 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 4 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 5 | She has been grateful to leave the arguing to him and has rewarded him with gold medal after gold medal . |
| 6 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |
| 7 | Belinda had the case-file in front her and had handed it over without a word almost before he had realised who she was . |
| 8 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 9 | A low range of hills lifted in the north , yellow , rumpled , threadbare , as if someone had been carrying a lionskin and had grown tired of it and had thrown it down . |
| 10 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |