Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [coord] [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines .
2 Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright .
3 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
4 No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really .
5 Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit .
6 She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in .
7 But there are many cases where the merging of meanings are more and we have to be on our guard .
8 ‘ Frank 's been back but he 's gone again , ’ she said , quivering with importance .
9 I would like to hear from women who are now or who have been involved in prostitution .
10 Yeah I do n't know , I 'm not and I 've
11 He looked at his watch , suddenly remembering his mother would be home and he had done nothing about supper .
12 ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’
13 Next year we 'll certainly be back and we 've certainly got a lot more plans to make it better . ’
14 You have to remember them , it 's nice to be back and we have n't changed at all , but you do remember those that did n't come back .
15 H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes .
16 ‘ Well , now that I 'm here and you 've apparently succeeded in your nasty little ploy , where do I sleep ? ’
17 No , I ca n't say I like any of these jobs — I do them because they 've got to be done : I 'm here and I 've got to do them ( all said in a dragging monotone ) .
18 Now I 'm here and I have a place too and nothing 's going to change that .
19 ‘ You 've got to be there and you 've got to sign this to show that you 're aware of it . ’
20 Whether it be a union branch meeting or any other branch meeting you had to be there and you had to know what you 're talking about .
21 ‘ And I do it so that people know I 've been around and I 've kept my eyes open . ’
22 Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together .
23 It 's obviously Th there are gon na be jobs in here that are flagged up as overspent , which are n't or which have got very very good reasons for
24 It had been there but he had not seen it .
25 In theory one might say that the problems have always been there and we have now just started to recognise them .
26 you 've been there and I 've only been there thirteen years so
27 racemic mixture in other words , both are there but it has no ah !
28 Both are there but it has no effect on plane polarised light , for instance , like , as if one of them is trying to rotate it to the left by so many degrees and the other one is rotating to the right by the said the amount .
29 One day , when they were together and he had a good career , when he had his own house and a car and did n't need to walk and could afford taxis if he wanted them ; he 'd take that same route just for old times ' sake , try to recapture the uncertain ecstasies of that dark , early morning trek .
30 Yeah , sections er , Longmans were in and they had them .
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