Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , they could 've filled it in . |
| 2 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 3 | We would 've dropped her back . |
| 4 | This business has broken him up badly . ’ |
| 5 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 6 | Though neither Reagan nor any of his aides has formulated it in so many words , I think that the failure of standard economic remedies has created a kind of desperation , and , like a jilted lover , the administration is ready to take up with any attractive candidate . |
| 7 | She stopped , then said slowly , ‘ Losing your dog has shaken me up so much that I 'm very nervous about this case . |
| 8 | Quite clearly , as you say , something has shaken you up . ’ |
| 9 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 10 | An escaped prisoner who faces charges of disposing of the body of a Swindon man , has given himself up . |
| 11 | Mike has given us back our respect . ’ |
| 12 | Tabkay says he does n't feel he has given anything up to be a Buddhist monk . |
| 13 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 14 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 15 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 17 | Jane cocks an eyebrow and says that , if anything , she has fattened me up . |
| 18 | He has picked her up , lied to her , manipulated her insecurity and ignorance , and she is asking forgiveness for her lack of appreciation . |
| 19 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 20 | Against the odds , he has carried it off . |
| 21 | Platt has let me down |
| 22 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 23 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 24 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 25 | I can imagine the man in the evenings , slumped in his armchair , a glass in his hand , brooding on how life has let him down . |
| 26 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 27 | The Christian life should be one of joy and peace , they feel , so either they have failed God or he has let them down — though they feel guilty for thinking so . |
| 28 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 29 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 30 | The public has been marvellous it is big business and local Government that has let us down . ’ |