Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful .
3 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 .
4 It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 You are the most stubborn , irritating child I have ever come across !
8 Advertising should be based on the accurate job description you have already drawn up , so that the right sort of people will recognize themselves .
9 ‘ This is the best all-round team I have ever played in .
10 And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football .
11 Kate , a veteran of several battle zones , added : ‘ This is without doubt the most dangerous place I have ever worked in . ’
12 Davis 's agent was there , Herrick Shnexnayder , a desperate human being who wore a French smock , a prosciutto cravat and the most complicated double pate-job I have ever come across in ten years of show business .
13 A sound I have often read about , but never knowingly heard , is the scream produced by male badgers .
14 There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods .
15 ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today .
16 He said : ‘ Mo is the sharpest , most dangerous goalscorer I have ever played alongside .
17 ‘ I hope you know how much self-discipline I have just summoned up .
18 the stuff I have never seen so much stuff .
19 The Kennel Club is the doziest organisation I have ever come across in initiating communication to the outside world .
20 Over the years since that occasion I have often wondered why I did what I decided to do .
21 Thus the procedure we have already set up will work when given a program not containing any PAR constructs .
22 Yes , we have a free day tomorrow — actually the first really free day we have ever had here — i.e. not only free of teaching but also free of official sight-seeing arrangements .
23 We say this , not simply because of the weight of evidence we have just set down , but because of two additional factors of significance .
24 Aesthetics is a topic I have previously discussed only with my cosmetic dentist , Mrs McGilchrist ( as in " the aesthetics are going to cost you on this one " ) , and with the odd deluded lighting-cameraman who might have his views about the aesthetics of a Bulky Bar dissolve , a Rumpburger close-up , a Zaparama zoom .
25 ‘ I 've wanted to win every game I have ever played in and I will never change that outlook .
26 But he revealed : ‘ That 's without a shadow of a doubt the hardest game I have ever played in . ’
27 It might be a person , child , animal , bird , goblin , or some creature you have never seen before .
28 This is an example we have already worked out .
29 When it closed , a statuesque elderly lady in curly grey hair , several laps of necklaces and a sweeping gown that may have been bombazine ( a word I have often pondered over ) showed clearly by her bold carriage that she was a power behind the Kenny throne .
30 This involves breathing in the air you have just breathed out .
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