Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 2 | Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across . |
| 3 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 4 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 5 | There was a gleam in his eyes nobody had ever seen before . |
| 6 | The Bill is based on proposals in the Education White Paper Choice and Diversity , published in June which , according to Mr Patten , builds on the success achieved by schools which have already opted out . |
| 7 | During those months you 've frequently explained how we would both benefit from informing the literary world of the trick Tristram and I played on it . |
| 8 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 9 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
| 10 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 11 | Some students will use the time to try out major speeches they have never attempted before , and find out where this may take them . |
| 12 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 13 | Her smart blue blazer sported a golden eagle surrounded by words he had never seen before . |
| 14 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 15 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 16 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |
| 17 | Mr is still moving a motion which refers to the party conference proposals which have now moved on to bills before the house . |
| 18 | ‘ This is the best start I have made to any season and it is the best four rounds I have ever put together , ’ he said . |
| 19 | This I still consider the most brilliant course of lectures I have ever heard anywhere , and I have heard a great many . |
| 20 | Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out . |
| 21 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 22 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 25 | We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before . |
| 26 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 27 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 28 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 29 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 30 | He turned to John Scales who had just come in . |