Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] " 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 Diving to me has never seemed particularly energetic , and certainly one does n't swim at speed when sports diving .
5 Shaking his fist , spluttering incomprehensibly , the middle-aged man behind me has definitely lost it .
6 ‘ Nothing like me has ever happened in the rap world — ever !
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else .
14 These have made very nice baby coats in white and one of them has actually sold !
15 How , to start with , do they know that they have reached part of the sea where the water below them has suddenly become very much deeper ?
16 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 .
17 Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup …
18 Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one …
19 Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action .
20 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 ) .
21 ‘ According to our faith , ’ he wrote , ‘ nothing has always existed except God alone , Who is altogether immobile . ’
22 ‘ The truth is nothing has really changed .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ I suppose — ’ she shot him a quick glance ‘ — I suppose , to be honest , nothing has really changed under the surface , has it ? ’
26 Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned !
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 The nearest to a map-reference which Violet Needham ever gave for her fictional countries may be found in a casual conversation between two schoolboys , one of whom has recently visited :
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