Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And something told me I had n't behaved too well . |
| 2 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
| 3 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 4 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
| 5 | That is perhaps why I did n't hear the name of a tall , dark-haired handsome girl whom I had n't met before . |
| 6 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 7 | An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help . |
| 8 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 9 | Oh God I can st I can still remember Auntie Edie and her mouth full of rotten teeth , oh dear , whom I 'd never met before |
| 10 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 11 | He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury , whom I have not seen before . |
| 12 | May I through The Lifeboat thank any readers who responded to my letter in the Spring 1991 issue concerning the breakage of a plate in the ‘ Heroes of the Sea ’ series to whom I have not replied personally . |
| 13 | There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’ |
| 14 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 15 | Having said which er I I 've already pointed out that I I see no great potential for fifty hectares in in our area . |
| 16 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 17 | Most of the people in some way or other , have been looked after by somebody else and that 's the experience which I I 've certainly gone through and if in fact you start making up your mind too early about which homes you 're going |
| 18 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
| 19 | The worst bit was coming over the runway for the landing when I felt that I was no longer in control , but he made a perfect landing … a great landing for anyone , but incredible for someone who had never flown before . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We came to meet someone who has n't turned up . |
| 21 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 22 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 23 | May I , as someone who has recently come off the dole , comment on Donald Gould 's article ( Forum , 20 January , p 180 ) . |
| 24 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 25 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 26 | She says that her life now is better than the life she could have spent with someone she had never met before . |
| 27 | A crazy man , someone she had never seen before , took a shot at her from a rooftop . |
| 28 | Is there someone he 's never got over ? |
| 29 | I myself have long given up any hope of a more permanent relationship . ’ |
| 30 | Somebody I 'd never seen before said hello and |