Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | born free look at merito I 've got a merito for every piece of work I 've done |
| 2 | If the answer is no , then you need to think about how you could improve that piece of work , somebody is speaking now it 's bad enough you owe me ten minutes if it 's not the best piece of work you 've ever done , why is n't it ? |
| 3 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |
| 4 | Maggie put a hand in her coat pocket , and with the tips of her fingers touched the piece of scrimshaw she 'd found in the mud where their house had once stood . |
| 5 | Zakrewski commented , ‘ This is the most ridiculous piece of legislation I have ever seen in my entire life . |
| 6 | Another piece of equipment we 've got is a pocket notebook , we write down everything we do . |
| 7 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 8 | If you remove the piece of rib you 've just knitted from the machine and then compare its width with the width of the needles in working position , you 'll see what I mean . |
| 9 | Biggest damn piece of architecture I 've ever seen . |
| 10 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 11 | The strongest piece of evidence we 've found so far is that piece of chain , which ties in with the attack on the gipsy girl . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a piece of teak I 've carved into a hex sign up there , ’ he pointed out . |
| 13 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Form a long line along the piece of road you 've been making and search the forest to the north . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , commencing slowly what every contrary sense told him was a venture into dangerous territory , the piece of history I had in mind was a defenestration . |
| 16 | He remembered a piece of music he had been carrying around in his head for years and bragged that he knew a better tune . |
| 17 | But when he was invited to play a piece of music he had composed for the Princess Royal to her when she visited Edinburgh , they rapidly found out . |
| 18 | Often they ask me for requests , and sometimes they will come over and ask about a piece of music I 've just played . |
| 19 | I took out the piece of parchment I had found on the corpse . |
| 20 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 21 | It was not a note but a long letter explaining everything , as long and taking her as long to compose as the last piece of writing she had done , an essay comparing and contrasting Verdi and Wagner and their operas . |
| 22 | A piece of verse he had heard long ago came drifting back to Carew ; the lament of some long dead , long forgotten Irish poet surveying his ravaged country . |
| 23 | Every piece of material we have helps to assess an act . |
| 24 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 25 | USL 's in-house counsel says OSF , which appears to looking for proof of an industry-wide conspiracy against it , is asking USL to produce not only every piece of paper they 've got with OSF 's name on it but anything that refers to Unix or even software . |
| 26 | But I 'm going to give you a little piece of paper and on the piece of paper it 's got ten questions . |
| 27 | I doubt if Paxton knows either , ’ Donna said , looking at the piece of paper she 'd collected the day before . |
| 28 | Where did I , where did I put that piece of paper I had ? |
| 29 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 30 | The work that prompted the writing began when the teacher brought into the class ( a combined J3/J4 class ) a piece of driftwood she had been given . |