Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 2 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 3 | It was always a mistake to let Mr Evans know you liked someone or had enjoyed anything . |
| 4 | Got a packet for when we get home so I that 's got to make my . |
| 5 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 6 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 7 | We saw ourselves as having to do erm a considerable number of cross-sections for calculating , or enabling the P Q S to calculate earthworks quantities . |
| 8 | Nothing that had happened recently had caused her pain , she told herself adamantly — anger certainly , and annoyance in abundance , but not pain . |
| 9 | ‘ You said you had nothing that had belonged to your father ! ’ he accused savagely . |
| 10 | But I repeated them in Ezra Pound. : Poet as Sculptor , and nothing that has come to my notice since , including an erudite and adulatory article on these cantos by David Gordon in Paideuma 4 ( 1975 ) , has made me want to retract my words or change my mind . |
| 11 | Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish . |
| 12 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ We shall regret nothing that has happened now . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing that has happened in the recent cases provides any reason whatsoever for people who are liable to pay the community charge failing to do so . |
| 15 | Nothing that has happened in some recent cases provides any reason for people who are liable to pay the community charge failing to do so . |
| 16 | And nothing that has happened to us since then … neither our separation , nor misguided , foolish pride on both our parts … nothing can ever change or alter my deep love for you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 18 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 19 | and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got eyes and it 's me that had to brush his clothes . |
| 21 | Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I have n't got it . |
| 22 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 23 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 24 | Also there 's been friends and people around me that have helped make things easier . |
| 25 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |
| 26 | Oh it 's just me that 's got to give up lunch is it ? |
| 27 | Do you remember any of the teachers particularly well any of them that had had an impact on you ? |
| 28 | He was joking , half flirting , stirring an intimacy between them that had sent a flickering response , like warm fingers , down Ronni 's spine . |
| 29 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 30 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |