Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 2 | Of all the girls he could have taken up with in the camp , she was about the most unlikely . |
| 3 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know how many firms of bloody architects I 've traipsed round to in the past two months ? |
| 5 | Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village . |
| 6 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 8 | ’ The Royal Oak in Keswick wins special praise — after watching horse-racing at Crow Park Green dined in company there , and had ‘ one of the best ever dinners I have sat down to in the North of England . ’ |
| 9 | Of the fifty two children entering the school in September 1991 only six percent had received nursery education , compared with thirty nine percent from families who have moved in to in the past . |
| 10 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |