Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 2 | PENALTY : If an amount is shown in respect of a penalty or penalties being recovered under the bill and you have not previously been informed of the ground on which it has or they have been imposed , further particulars will be found in the information accompanying the bill . |
| 3 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 4 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 5 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 6 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 7 | Well we stopped and we 'd been there about a week , and all men that 'd worked in the pits , they were fetching them . |
| 8 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 9 | Crook in particular was anxious to leave the ground floor flat because his windows had been smashed and he had been attacked . |
| 10 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 11 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 12 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 13 | It was claimed the birds were related and they 'd been captive bred . |
| 14 | " But no one will speak German now that the war is done and they have been defeated , " the girl said seriously . |
| 15 | so I 've never done anything , but he 's moved and he 's been back and seen us . |
| 16 | They 've been retyped and they 've been called erm , procedures . |
| 17 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 18 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 20 | Working on the project was an awful lot of hard work , and a lot of soul searching but it 's been worth it . |
| 21 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 22 | A small crowd had gathered and she had been carried across the street and inside the nearest shop in order to get her out of the sun . |
| 23 | The square is completed and she has been introduced to Turtle Graphics . |
| 24 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 25 | From the seventeenth century onwards , much of this land to the south of the Wash was drained and it has been farmed intensively ever since . |
| 26 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 27 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 28 | For a short time he was buried at Cambridge at the Military Cemetery , but since then I 've checked and he has been sent , his body sent back home . |
| 29 | That 's not what I 've heard and I 've been asking around about you . |
| 30 | Anthony Gilberthorpe was originally awarded damages of more than sixty thousand pounds , but now that 's been overturned and he 's been told he must pay all the costs . |