Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 2 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 3 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 4 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 5 | Okay I 'll tell Chuck I 've sold it . |
| 6 | But the other important element is that you have to reflect the style of the original , look at the notes I 've made at the bottom of the page , please . |
| 7 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 8 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 9 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 10 | But remembering the faith I have met , and shared , with men of all races , in the unfolding pattern of God 's will , I take courage afresh . |
| 11 | In faith I have applied to go to Sydney , Australia in September . |
| 12 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 13 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 14 | Boatbuilders would probably say that the 38ft yacht I have described is too expensive to produce . |
| 15 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 16 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 17 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 18 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 19 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 20 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 21 | At Eton I had enjoyed the Field Game but loathed cricket , and had not played soccer or rugger since my preparatory school . |
| 22 | At Eton I had passed School Certificate , but without the credit in Latin which was indispensable for getting to Oxford . |
| 23 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 24 | It 's not cos she 's it , cos she 's like that you know I bought her summat , when ours were not , not very old , I did n't know what to get her and I bought her an ornament , she says oh I wish people 'd stop buying me ornaments I 've got too many , has to dust round them I thought you 'll get sod all next year |
| 25 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 26 | I was now really eager to breed this species , but ( not surprisingly for the reasons I 've outlined ) the two individuals showed almost less than zero interest in each other , despite bribes of earthworms , which they can manage easily ( and eagerly ) without any need for chopping . |
| 27 | I do realize that there are problems in finding suitable sites and that possibly that costs would be involved in setting them up , but for the reasons I 've outlined we should take the bull by the horns and make an effort to find sites and budget for the costs involved so the benefits can be felt as soon as possible . |
| 28 | Erm , we hope that you will come back soon , because for all the reasons I 've outlined it 's tremendously important to us and it 's nice to have a body of , a big large body of trade unions in the city in terms of our feelings as , as local trade unions as well . |
| 29 | Er , I do n't know if you er , meant er er er the various plans to achieve er , i in that order but I certainly want obey patient 's choice er , er er a a at first that 's the reasons I 've found . |
| 30 | That 's one of the reasons I 've carried on with mine . ’ |