Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [noun sg] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I 've just had my first perm and I 'm a bit disappointed that my hair has lost its shine . |
| 2 | ‘ Would it be enough , ’ he whispered , ‘ if I told you I will love you for all time , that my heart has found its resting place , and my soul has found its mate ? |
| 3 | You could see that my attack had taken him completely by surprise . |
| 4 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 5 | He frowned and sucked on his cigarette and I somehow got the impression that my question had annoyed him , but when he answered his voice was mild enough . |
| 6 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 7 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 8 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 9 | I stuffed the sack down out of sight , and straightened , to see that my search had brought me above a cleft in the moorland through which a glimpse of the western machair could be seen . |
| 10 | All this mental harassment has affected me so much that my doctor has warned me that I 'm of the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 11 | In a further letter to the Chief Executive , Councillor Matheson said that , had emergency guidelines been approved by the committee , the department could have acted in the knowledge that its committee had backed their use . |
| 12 | When the Cripps offer of 1942 , of dominion status — with the all-important right of secession — after the war and representation on the viceroy 's Executive Council during the war , looked like being accepted , he joined forces with the viceroy , Linlithgow , behind Cripps ' back to persuade the Cabinet that its envoy had exceeded his authority , and the deal was off . |
| 13 | Constance knew that her friend had failed her . |
| 14 | The moment she encounters Romeo and senses somehow that her life has changed her movement becomes more purposeful . |
| 15 | She laughed delightedly , too happy to care about anything but the fact that her trip had brought her an undreamed-of surprise . |
| 16 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 17 | She broke off , caught unawares having been about to reveal that her sister had told her . |
| 18 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 19 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 20 | At first , Henry had not been able to believe that her therapist had got it so right . |
| 21 | He did not know that her experience had given her great strength of feeling . |
| 22 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 23 | If it were n't for the fact that her grandmother had helped her grandfather form the original company of Sarah Chester Fabrics , that it was her grandmother 's designs combined with her grandfather 's technical know-how that had started the whole thing off , she 'd have written off all the Chester males as hopeless chauvinists . |
| 24 | She walked out of the door , grateful that her marriage had brought her perhaps one thing of value , and that was freedom at last from her belief that she 'd never been loved . |
| 25 | She did not appreciate that this was his normal greeting , and assumed that her reputation had preceded her . |
| 26 | She had herself spent several weeks alone in her cottage when she had just bought it and when she returned to mix with people she had found that her vocabulary had deserted her , that without stimulation she had completely lost the art of conversation , had been able only to mutter inanities in monosyllabic form . |
| 27 | He told Mrs Edwards that her son had given his life in the service of humanity . |
| 28 | When the Sheikha heard that her son had kept me beating the tambourine all the way to Al Ain she was horrified and no amount of pleading on my part helped . |
| 29 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 30 | While they were saying so , Marshall was contacting Mrs Tavett and learning that her husband had said he was going to the surgery that morning but had not been home since . |