Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But I have yet to be convinced of the need that these should be taken at two particular times in a student 's school career . |
| 32 | Ludes wines are welcomed for their use in blending of cuvées , they have the body and vinosity of a true Montagne wine , but I have yet to be convinced that a single growth Ludes can be a complete wine on its own . |
| 33 | ‘ So you say , but I have yet to be convinced . |
| 34 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 35 | But at least in the midst of my misery I can own what I have instead of feeling I am a pawn in another 's game with rules that I can not stick to or change . |
| 36 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 37 | I have right from the first . |
| 38 | ‘ In the circumstances , you may find what I have here of some interest . ’ |
| 39 | Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’ |
| 40 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 41 | ‘ Well then , suppose I have here in my pocket a paper that shows where Flint hid his treasure , ’ said the doctor . |
| 42 | I have particularly in mind community nurseries and similar support . |
| 43 | I have particularly in mind , the erm regeneration initiatives of this government , the experience that erm you know of an area and erm the experience of what is happening in neighbouring counties . |
| 44 | Its interest , as will already be clear , is that it offers a prospect of closing the gap between fact and value , bypassing the issue of whether or how one can draw prescriptive conclusions from descriptive premisses alone : it affirms the apparently naive claim that to know how to act I have only to be sufficiently aware of myself and my surroundings . |
| 45 | I 'm not brilliant but I have only to be shown once . |
| 46 | I have now of course gone er Mrs Birmingham er to present the Conservative motion . |
| 47 | He wrote a letter dated 20th February , 1842 , to Schwabe , his publisher in Dusseldorf saying that ‘ I have now after 18 months of work finished the sixth edition of my Organon , the most nearly perfect of all . ’ |
| 48 | There is a difference between a contract to sell ‘ 12 bottles of port ’ and one to sell ‘ the 12 bottles of port which I have now in stock . ’ |
| 49 | Several such enzymes including Alu I and Rsa I have close to 100% activity in 0.5 KGB . |
| 50 | I 'll use a cheque and hope I have enough in the account back home . ’ |
| 51 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 52 | This , on my part , was a massive concession , since over the years I have almost without exception refused to indulge in self-publicising on the box . |
| 53 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
| 54 | ‘ Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee , because thou hast left thy first love . ’ |
| 55 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 56 | IT MAY surprise readers of this column that I have never in my life voted Conservative at a general election . |
| 57 | I have never in my life looked forward to starting a diet , but by the end of my holiday I could n't wait to get back on it to maintain my slimmer figure ( with every other diet I have put weight back on and more ! ) . |
| 58 | I have never in my entire life seen so much crap ( wheeeeeeee ! ) . |
| 59 | ‘ But then , I have never in my life known a single headmaster of whom that might not be said . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I have never in all my professional life forgotten to switch the tape on , ’ she said . |