Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 2 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 3 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 5 | Diving to me has never seemed particularly energetic , and certainly one does n't swim at speed when sports diving . |
| 6 | Shaking his fist , spluttering incomprehensibly , the middle-aged man behind me has definitely lost it . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 11 | Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it . |
| 12 | Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them . |
| 13 | Wilkinson was in no doubt how his team had benefited : ‘ The fact I was able to work so hard with them has definitely made a big difference and helped improve my back four . |
| 14 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 15 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 16 | These have made very nice baby coats in white and one of them has actually sold ! |
| 17 | Modern secateurs are now so good , however , that professional opposition to them has virtually disappeared , and it is a rare sight indeed to see a knifesman carefully honing the curved blade with his special fine-grained carborundum stone , invariably kept in an oilskin tobacco pouch in his apron pocket . |
| 18 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 19 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 20 | Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action . |
| 21 | Nothing has basically changed , however : the mimicry of bygone styles remains just as immaculate as in Visconti 's work , not only in costumes and hairstyles , in sets and shop-fronts , but down to that surprisingly potent signifier of the recent past , the typeface ( as in all those beguiling un-period credit titles ) . |
| 22 | ‘ According to our faith , ’ he wrote , ‘ nothing has always existed except God alone , Who is altogether immobile . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The truth is nothing has really changed . |
| 24 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 25 | Even though time has marched on and Danes and Vikings have invaded it , Catholic , Anglican and Methodist religion have influenced it , nothing has really changed its basic aura and raison d'etre . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose — ’ she shot him a quick glance ‘ — I suppose , to be honest , nothing has really changed under the surface , has it ? ’ |
| 27 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 28 | Elsewhere reference has been made to the difference between Spanish style and flamenco style ( see page 59 ) which belongs to the Spanish gipsies from whom has also developed what is known as gipsy character dance . |
| 29 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 30 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |