Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
| 2 | And indeed when we ponder the relationship between DNA and proteins , we see that co-operation has been at least as significant a force in evolution as has competition , and at the most fundamental level . |
| 3 | The example of Virginia Woolf 's interior monologue has been at least as useful , in this way , as Joyce 's or Dorothy Richardson 's stream of consciousness , most immediately to Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen in the 1930s , as well as to later writers , women perhaps especially , such as Anita Brookner . |
| 4 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 5 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 6 | It would have been at least as hard for the English to move north and attack the St. Lawrence Valley . |
| 7 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 8 | is the bathroom , so she must have been in there cos he 's hammering on the door and bashing it and kicking it . |
| 9 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 10 | I 'd 've loved to have been in there and gone mad pull all them windows out and put all nice new wee windows in . |
| 11 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 12 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 13 | They 've been in here and they still want you to do the disco ! |
| 14 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 15 | I mean , I 've been in there when it unless he 's drastically altered it |
| 16 | he wo n't let them talk , it 's disgusting , I tell ya , you know , no end of times I 've been in there and it 's obvious we 're waiting for chips |
| 17 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 18 | There are builders , architects , bankers , colleagues , consultants , and coaches ( with whom it is possible to share jokes and moments of relaxation , knowing what we have been through together and may have to face again , at any moment ) to see . |
| 19 | Some of us have been in here that long , we could have to be treated for exposure |
| 20 | You know what it 's been like ever since we left the Store . ’ |
| 21 | And Marie 's been in there and seen it . ’ |