Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They stick me in some kind of waiting-room Upstairs , in a wing of the complex I 've never seen before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 10 | Tonally the Atlantis is a different kettle of fish from any Rick I 've ever played before . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Athelstan stared into the flames , half listening to a wind which had suddenly sprung up , now whining and clattering against the tightly secured shutters . |
| 13 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was a switch she had n't noticed before . |
| 18 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 19 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 20 | The luxury she had only glimpsed so far was all a far cry from the fading Victorian splendour of St Margaret 's with its peeling paintwork and under-staffed , overworked departments . |
| 21 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 22 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh — so this is an interview you have n't done yet ? ’ |
| 24 | There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form . |
| 25 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 26 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 27 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 28 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 29 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 30 | He knew these people planned something terrible , although in his ignorance and confusion he had not grasped entirely what . |