Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 2 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 3 | I did so erm partly because this seems the most useful approach for an audience , not all of whom perhaps have read in detail the fifteen volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu , erm and partly because he in fact offers a very interesting challenge , I think , at this precise level . |
| 4 | They had come much further into the forest than they intended , much further indeed than those who ordered them in had intended . |
| 5 | The tug which had linked and drawn them together had gone . |
| 6 | On top of that many of them necessarily have to divide their time to allow for the other tasks for which they are also responsible . |
| 7 | Whether or not Dom Pérignon added sugar is of little importance here , but it is likely that someone somewhere had engaged in the practice and , in all probability , the sugaring of wine may have been quite commonplace . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 9 | Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 10 | I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries . |
| 11 | Should I rather have brought with me the cross from the altar ? ’ |
| 12 | Anyway , I merely had to dangle my aromatically forged reference from the Hamlet Academy before Mr Tim and there I was , unleashed upon the cosmopolitan virginibus puerisque couchant before their desks . |
| 13 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 14 | I all had hoped to be able to bring before you a final draft of th the service it has not yet finally been passed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales therefore , discussions on what form and how it will be printed have not yet taken place . |
| 15 | Someone only had to look at me later on for me to get pregnant . ’ |
| 16 | So I naturally had to bear in mind the possibility that the jewel had not been stolen at all by any outside party , but ‘ caused to disappear ’ , let us say , by the Strattons themselves . |
| 17 | In producing Supersense , the animal that I personally have become closest to is a European green-winged teal , which follows me everywhere . |
| 18 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 19 | I personally have found your candour very refreshing . |
| 20 | Although ScotRail faced a barrage of bad publicity over the cycle ban in 1991 , and although some of the present restrictions remain irksome , on the whole I personally have had only good experiences when taking a cycle by rail within Scotland . |
| 21 | What I know about palaeotology is n't too much I mean I obviously have to try and know a bit , but it 's not my field — erm in order to test the minor claim , you have to be able to get your hands on some rock which actually consists of continuous sedimentation over long periods of time . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if I encounter a text which deals with an unfamiliar content area and does so in accordance. with communicative or rhetorical conventions which are new to me , then I obviously have to look much more closely at the language itself as a source of information as to what might be meant . |
| 23 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 24 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 25 | I only had to call Mr once . |
| 26 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 27 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 28 | I only had to ask . |
| 29 | Although this slowed progress down and was , it must be admitted , somewhat disappointing , I only had to remind myself what effort would have been needed if using a mallet . |
| 30 | ‘ My part in this was easy compared to his ’ , North tapped out one night to McFarlane , talking about Poindexter 's handling of the pre-Tehran manoeuvrings ; ‘ I only had to deal with our enemies . |