Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who took part in the sessions found it enjoyable and good fun , ’ commented Andrew , ‘ and although everyone has not yet managed to pack it in , the early feedback is encouraging . ’ |
| 2 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 3 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 4 | That is absolutely right , and nothing has more clearly revealed the Opposition 's attitude to people 's wishes in the matter than their persistent hostility to the 4 million or more people who have taken out personal pensions for exactly that reason . |
| 5 | Since the publication of Boris Shalotsky 's The Semiology of Lawn-Mowers : inflections of the genre , nothing has more graphically encapsulated bourgeois Angst than the disputed merits of different lawn-mowers . |
| 6 | You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it , |
| 7 | I 'm amazed someone has n't already lynched the kids we think responsible . ’ |
| 8 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 9 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 10 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 11 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 12 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 13 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 14 | A sort of chess-game with death I 'd rather unexpectedly won . |
| 15 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 16 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 18 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 19 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 21 | And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done . |
| 22 | Until now I 'd never consciously posed that choice to myself . |
| 23 | I 'd never even noticed the one next door , but the herb must have come from that |
| 24 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 25 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 26 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 27 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 28 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 29 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 30 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |