Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 2 | By the time I had almost given up hope , a telegram arrived . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 4 | No , I 've just rung up Viking to get some box sealing tape and , and this here , he , he said is your name T manager , what is the name of your business ? |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't say I 've actually worked out penny for penny what my overheads are . |
| 6 | ‘ I have already paid out £100,000 in legal fees . |
| 7 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 8 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 9 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 10 | It was set up in conjunction with Swiss entrepreneur Niels Rasmussen , owner of Nercom Informatik , who has also set up Goldmine Technologies AG in Zug , Switzerland ( UX No 374 ) . |
| 11 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 12 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd no one left to fight with , and Fred , on whom she 'd always called down curses , turned into a sainted memory . |
| 14 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 15 | She had almost given up hope when she saw Meredith arm in arm with Grace and Bunny stepping off the kerb outside the Women 's Hospital . |
| 16 | She had almost given up drink . |
| 17 | Finding no way other than the direct question , he put it , and watched Yeo , unruffled , confirm that she had indeed put up £100,000 . |
| 18 | The meeting was held to contain and deal with the mobilization of an estimated 400-500 re-contras ( disbanded contras who had again taken up arms ) in the northern Jinotega province . |
| 19 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 20 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 21 | Vranitzky , who had previously ruled out co-operation with Haider 's FPÖ , began negotiations on Oct. 16 to renew the " grand coalition " of the SPÖ and the ÖVP for a further term . |
| 22 | Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies . |
| 23 | The elections will be boycotted by Shining Path , who have already stepped up assassinations , caused several candidates to resign and raised fears that , in many parts of Peru , democratic elections will simply be a pipe dream . |
| 24 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 25 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 26 | ‘ But we 've never changed out attitudes towards our audience , so it 's all down to their approach to us . |
| 27 | There was a lot of teasing and we had soon thought up nicknames for each other . |
| 28 | So far as the sub-national programme is concerned , we have already worked up provision patterns for competition sports halls and for multi-purpose , high quality pitches ; so there is no need to include these items in your returns . |
| 29 | In summary , we have successfully carried out TIPSS in 18 patients with control of bleeding from gastric or esophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy . |
| 30 | ‘ We have never given up hope , especially as everyone in the North West was fighting for us , ’ added Fran . |