Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 3 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 4 | What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation . |
| 5 | Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across . |
| 6 | No he 'd love that though cos he could come round and go shit I 've just come out of rehab and everyone would go oh wow man you must be really drugged out . |
| 7 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 8 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 9 | Lillee , Hall , Lindwall , Miller and Allen are greater names for the past ) ; and not only that this is the longest sentence I 've ever put together . |
| 10 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 11 | I was n't even gon na tell Scott I had n't come on ! |
| 12 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 13 | They stick me in some kind of waiting-room Upstairs , in a wing of the complex I 've never seen before . |
| 14 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 15 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 16 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 17 | Tonally the Atlantis is a different kettle of fish from any Rick I 've ever played before . |
| 18 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 19 | Athelstan stared into the flames , half listening to a wind which had suddenly sprung up , now whining and clattering against the tightly secured shutters . |
| 20 | There was a gleam in his eyes nobody had ever seen before . |
| 21 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 22 | One consequence of time spent on foreign policy is that there are still subjects on which the president himself has not laid down detailed marching orders to his staff . |
| 23 | The Bill is based on proposals in the Education White Paper Choice and Diversity , published in June which , according to Mr Patten , builds on the success achieved by schools which have already opted out . |
| 24 | Moreover , the Attorney-General 's contentions are inconsistent with the practice which has now continued over a number of years in cases of judicial review . |
| 25 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 26 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 27 | The most notorious of these was the " House of the Republic " , a vast new presidential palace in Bucharest which had already cost over 6,000 million lei ( US$700 million ) . |
| 28 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 29 | Ever since coming to Portugal she had stubbornly fought off her feelings of homesickness . |
| 30 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |