Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 2 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 3 | That 's one of the reasons I 've carried on with mine . ’ |
| 4 | Going through all the blokes I 've got off with at home I bet . |
| 5 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 6 | We 're able to put up most of them , while the remainder I 've sent round to The Beach Hotel . ’ |
| 7 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 8 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 9 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 10 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 11 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 12 | That is the decision you have to face up to , that 's the decision I have to face up to . |
| 13 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
| 14 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 15 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 16 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 17 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 18 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 19 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 20 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 21 | The Emir Bashir the Third , who ruled Mount Lebanon for the Sublime Porte in Istanbul , had been unable to contain the bitter disputes which had broken out between the two communities . |
| 22 | Of course , for the wealthiest strata there is always the option of sending their children to elite private schools , while other urban parents make sacrifices to send their children to the fee-paying schools which have sprung up since 1977 especially to meet the unfulfilled demand for secondary education . |
| 23 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 24 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 25 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 26 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 27 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 28 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 29 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 30 | Nor will millions of fans who have lost out to the all-consuming demands of TV . |