Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [pers pn] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two ‘ old lags ’ , who have read all about sex , have the most daring conversations about an experience they have never known at first hand . |
| 2 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 3 | She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life . |
| 4 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 5 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 6 | ‘ Whom should I say is calling ? ’ the man said in an accent she had only ever heard in the movies . |
| 7 | The signalman in his isolated box tells the narrator of an apparition he has now seen three times . |
| 8 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
| 9 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 10 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 11 | Much of it has very little to do with what you are , and that is an emotion I have always felt and will always feel . |
| 12 | As an undergraduate he had already developed ideas on the possible mechanisms for the transmission of stimuli from the brain to the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland which led ultimately to possibly his best-known work , Neural Control of the Pituitary Gland ( 1955 ) , and thus to the establishment of neuroendocrinology as a new discipline . |
| 13 | Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh — so this is an interview you have n't done yet ? ’ |
| 15 | Now , as he stumbled towards the window of his room , he recognized that resentment lay behind his disbelief : resentment that his friendship with Dysart might have an origin he had never dreamed of ; that , in lending him a helping hand whenever he could , Dysart had merely been slumming . |
| 16 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 17 | Henry Tyler thought for a moment , ‘ That 's an acronym I have n't come across . ’ |
| 18 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 19 | Then some creatures emerged from it , through an opening I had n't noticed , and I realized that the other heap was a dwelling . |
| 20 | No , it was n't an Escort he had out there the other day was it ? |
| 21 | It 's an organisation I have always recognised provides a facility to commerce and industry which I think is highly desirable — that is a facility to take a long-term view . |
| 22 | It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future . |
| 23 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 24 | I was somewhere on the curve of prejudice ; aware of an anger I had not dealt with , simmering beneath the surface , showing itself in bad dreams and disgruntled waking . |
| 25 | This is an anger I have never known . |
| 26 | When he looked back at her , his face was dark with an anger she had n't seen in him before . |
| 27 | She wore an outfit she 'd always wanted to try but felt she was too plump to risk — a scarlet bustier and a black net skirt . |
| 28 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 29 | This phenomenon of STYLE BORROWING has many manifestations in prose : the child language at the beginning of Joyce 's Portrait is an example we have already noted ; others are the style of private correspondence used in epistolary novels such as Pamela ; the racy colloquialism of first-person novels such as The Catcher in the Rye ; the use of stylistic parody and pastiche as exemplified in Ulysses . |
| 30 | This is an example we have already worked out . |