Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 2 | You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ? |
| 3 | ‘ We are talking about a minority of drivers behaving very foolishly and we have hardly made any impact on those people . ’ |
| 4 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 5 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 6 | Took the chap away and I 've never seen anything of 'em since . |
| 7 | The fearful heat of the city seemed to encourage him to sleep half his time away and she had never felt more English than when she observed his devotion that summer to the long siesta . |
| 8 | But we love Thomas desperately and we 've never wanted to be without him . |
| 9 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 10 | He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father . |
| 11 | Dear Rosemary , ‘ I thought you would like to know that I 'm still following your diet ( almost anyway and I have never felt better for years . |
| 12 | Jack 's sister Lorraine said she knew that June had dated Don Rose around that time but no one could confirm that he was the father , or his secondary claim that he had married June before the baby was born ( he said they had separated quickly and she 'd later got a Mexican divorce , though apparently no papers are available to support his allegations ) . |
| 13 | We are doing more functions than ever and we have also had a lot more visitors from America . ’ |
| 14 | Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car ! |
| 15 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 16 | I came home and I have never done anything like it since . |
| 17 | The time is now 7.30 p.m. and I have just finished a very good meal of my favourite steak and kidney out of , of course , the self-heating tin . |
| 18 | A horrid brown one with pincers ran up my pyjama leg once and I 've never got over it . |
| 19 | I mean th they looked From the pictures they look fairly heavy like and I 've never handled a a riveting machine but I 've |
| 20 | You do realize it 's nine years later and we 've still got the bits , got all the bits in the garage ? |
| 21 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 22 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 23 | Now and you 've just had another prescription for that have n't you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 25 | He is much better now and I have just seen him walk out of the office unaided . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 28 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 29 | Yeah , cos we 've got to do your inhaler as well and we 'd better wipe that all that muck off your face , all that tomato sauce |
| 30 | We 've had several ex-racehorses who have suited us very well and we 've even had a Gelderland carriage horse . |