Example sentences of "at [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 2 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 3 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 4 | Probably , by the time he came to write Surprised by Joy his way of looking at himself had become so idiosyncratic that he was not able to see the significance of these two relationships in his religious , as well as in his whole emotional , development . |
| 5 | And so we 've , now , you know , in these times when you get tied up in red tape and bureaucratic mess everywhere the speed at which has achieved this is admirable and I do really thank you for that . |
| 6 | Probably it was a spurt of temper at her having dared to answer him back . |
| 7 | ‘ Before you do it , sir , just have a look at who 's come through that door . ’ |
| 8 | In order to determine whether this cleavage of ( AT ) n is peculiar to isolated regions of alternating AT we have studied the cleavage of several other fragments containing canonical bleomycin cleavage sites ( GY and GA ) flanked by blocks of ( AT ) n . |
| 9 | Instead she wrenched the door open , intending to shout something very rude at whoever had disturbed her quiet , peaceful morning . |
| 10 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 11 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 12 | And Lulu Harrington rang to express her dismay at what had occurred , enabling Charlotte to confirm something Ursula had already deduced . |
| 13 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 14 | It openly evoked the example of the Soviet dissidents , and voiced the despair of liberals of varying shades at what had happened to the fabric of British society since 1979 . |
| 15 | His long face expressed conventional regret at what had happened , the news having been conveyed by Nathan on the previous morning . |
| 16 | When she had lost her virginity four nights earlier , Constance had been elated ; but now she felt as she had always understood women did on their bridal night : deeply upset and even slightly resentful at what had happened . |
| 17 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 18 | Despite my anger and despair at what had happened to Brian , killing myself now would n't make amends for not helping him . |
| 19 | ‘ The murderer was meanwhile standing , shocked at what had happened , but still holding the gun . |
| 20 | And just look at what had happened to him ! |
| 21 | Eric came back from his school cruise and I started to talk a little after he arrived ; just nonsense at first , then later disjointed hints at what had happened , always followed by screaming and catatonia . |
| 22 | She spent two days recovering , expressed shock and horror at what had happened to me , then got on her bike and roared off . |
| 23 | Nineteen eighty nine edition which is the latest existing in Your Lordship 's House and I found that that edition did reveal at what had happened since to subsec to Sections Two and Three . |
| 24 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 25 | She was extremely upset at what had happened . |
| 26 | Donald Findlay , QC , defending , said that Sommerville bitterly regretted his folly at becoming involved and had expressed genuine sorrow , regret and shock at what had happened . |
| 27 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 28 | You have to look at what 's happened before . ’ |
| 29 | I think what you say is quite true Chairman , but I still I think the bottom line to it is , at the end of the day , to do away with a strategic authority , such as the County Council , in my opinion , if you look at what 's happened in the metropolitan areas , er in the country , Tyneside , Manchester , the West Midlands , areas like that , West Yorkshire , South Yorkshire , and er London itself , the er the doing away with a strategic authority . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose it 's too much to expect that you might look at what 's happened today from my point of view . ’ |