Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I 've just dug there . |
| 2 | I understood there was talk of taking up where you 'd both left off , ’ she reminded him . |
| 3 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 4 | We shall win in Brent and Ealing , where we have already turfed out the Labour party , and marginal seats in Wandsworth and Westminster , where people have seen the benefits of Conservative government . |
| 5 | Crops appeared where they had not grown before : rubber was carried from Brazil to become the staple of the Malayan economy , and soon to be very important in Indonesia and Ceylon . |
| 6 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |
| 7 | By and large , planting roses will be in one of two ways : either planting into fresh ground , a new collection perhaps , where they have not grown before , or you may be making a replacement of an old worn-out plant , or where one has failed . |
| 8 | To summarise the arguments , the critical proposition is that European companies , particularly technology-intensive ones , start from a position of disadvantage , where they have initially diversified rather broadly as multi-divisional companies and in the context of one single country . |
| 9 | He raised his hand and placed it on her arm where it had briefly touched before . |
| 10 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 11 | Although I had n't had as many fish as the bait fishers I was very pleased with the success and the quality and also with being afloat at sea in such idyllic circumstances . |
| 12 | Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there . |
| 13 | I have never come across anything like them again , although I have n't seen very many gardens . |
| 14 | Anyway , it was nice to hear from you , although I have n't got around to responding until now . |
| 15 | ‘ I have not forgotten my promise to help you find a place , although I have not done so yet . ’ |
| 16 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 17 | Valerie Masters … they and so many others arrived , did their songs with more panache than I 'd ever heard before , and departed . |
| 18 | I felt lower than I 'd ever felt before . |
| 19 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 20 | Across the bridge the track followed the old corpse road back to Muker through meadows fuller with flowers than I had ever seen before . |
| 21 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 22 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 23 | There 's more humans in this place than I 've ever seen before . |
| 24 | ‘ The conditions were colder than I 've ever worked in before , ’ said Harry . |
| 25 | ‘ One of my parts is very much on the marketing side and this has actually flourished and the demands on my time for giving talks and presentations all over the world at very high levels has become more demanding than I 've ever known before . ’ |
| 26 | Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider . |
| 27 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 28 | Sam had had something similar in Italy , although she had never worked out what the precise ingredients were . |
| 29 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 30 | Although you have already learned how to hold the camcorder , the way that you stand while you are holding it is important too . |