Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 2 | Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor . |
| 3 | This harassment and unfair bias has now got totally out of hand and has become nonsensical . |
| 4 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 6 | In dark trousers and with the sleeves of a pristine white shirt rolled up to reveal golden , muscled forearms , Vitor had obviously walked straight out from behind his desk and into his car . |
| 7 | The Warlords had already marched right out of the arena . |
| 8 | He turned to Marian but she had already plunged far down into unconsciousness , overwhelmed by the need for sleep . |
| 9 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 10 | The whole bizarre situation had finally slid right out of control . |
| 11 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 12 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 13 | I remembered a phrase I had once copied down out of Don Quixote : |
| 14 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 15 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
| 16 | The local security equipment retailers had clearly done well out of Ruggiero Miletti 's kidnapping . |
| 17 | When I went to find her , however , I discovered she had gone right to the top of the house to talk to Heathcliff through his locked bedroom door , and had then climbed out on to the roof and in through his window . |
| 18 | ‘ I know how much we have already put in up to the end of 1992 and I know what we could be asked for for 1993 , ’ Longuet said , but the size of the sums is to embarrassing for him to reveal them — but he did say they were incompatible with what the European Commission would allow and what French taxpayers wanted . |
| 19 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 20 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 21 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |