Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If this expert knows the product or has already worked with it , so much the better .
2 If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing .
3 That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London .
4 What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself !
5 By the beginning of the nineteenth century , encouraged by the new taste for the Picturesque , Gothic had established its domestic footing , at least in a decorative sense , and had even imported with it other exotica — Chinese and Egyptian , Arabic and Indian .
6 He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia .
7 Boswell burst out laughing and could not stop — the very idea : that Johnson , ‘ that majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom ’ , should keep a harem , and had often thought of it .
8 Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock .
9 They had heard the unnatural humming of a pylon in the summer air ; and had actually gone beneath it , on Fiver 's assurance that it could do them no harm .
10 As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) .
11 The singer had fought and won his battles against bulimia , drug and alcohol abuse and had publicly spoken about it to help others get over the nightmare of addiction .
12 I have had only the highest regard for Amnesty and have never written to you like this before .
13 We insisted on seeing this letter and have never heard from him since .
14 He had seen the priest in the refectory before , but had never spoken to him .
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