Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago .
2 The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain .
3 The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars .
4 To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church .
5 I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past .
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