Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests .
2 The curious thing is that though the facts are the same as they were in the Fifties and the risks are higher , the level of anxiety about them has markedly fallen .
3 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
4 The subjective impressions which RHA managers formed on their visit to the hospitals while they were deciding what to do about them has continually to be borne in mind .
5 No because I , no , I well , it 's is , I know people who say well I 've heard very little and I know that 's enough for them to have very good friends .
6 And as you will see from the County Council evidence , the er sites for them have actually been agreed during the Greater York study .
7 The other tenants say that life for them has never been better .
8 It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition .
9 Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid .
10 It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats .
11 The atmosphere between them had suddenly become frosty .
12 At three o'clock that afternoon , the intimacy between them had almost completely disintegrated .
13 She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged .
14 I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him .
15 Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ?
16 This for me has always been important .
17 Quite apart from Rosa , it is necessary for me to have somewhere to go and think without interruption .
18 Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen .
19 It was an otter such as I had never seen before , with this all-over fawn coat .
20 In some elusive way , here before me was the representative of something , some enormous sphere of sensations and transcendent values such as I had only read about , something my Maker had withheld from me which I desperately needed .
21 In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture .
22 ‘ If you found someone such as I have just described it would let you off the hook . ’
23 An analogy such as I have just drawn in this three act drama of salvation can be dangerously misleading .
24 After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years !
25 There was a fluency and an edification and upbuilding such as I have seldom seen .
26 A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me .
27 At that moment , and perhaps for an hour afterwards , I was on Cloud Nine — in a state of happiness , contentment , euphoria , joy and utter peace such as I have never experienced before or since : everything is all right , an inner voice said , and everything from now on will always be all right ; how wonderful to know that life can be like this .
28 The Centre provided a traditional Northwest salmon buffet , an experience such as I have never before encountered .
29 And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it !
30 So I 'll see you in about I 'd better work out what the date is .
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