Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is one particular marathon runner I have always liked and that 's Grete Waitz . |
| 2 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 3 | ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 4 | It was his goal that knocked United out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Atkinson added : ‘ Saunders is the best natural striker I 've ever worked with . |
| 5 | He scored his first goal of the season on Wednesday — and Ndlovu , who is rated by Coventry manager Bobby Gould as ‘ the most exciting young striker I have ever worked with ’ , believes that 's the first of many . |
| 6 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 7 | ‘ In approaching the wife 's defence I have regretfully come to the conclusion that the judge has overlooked two critical points of distinction between her case and that of the husband . |
| 8 | ‘ You have the most glorious hair I 've ever seen ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have the most beautiful hair I have ever seen . ’ |
| 10 | McGinley rates the 11% growth in like-for-like sales ‘ a pretty good performance in the deepest recession I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 11 | Thus this can be used to refer to a forthcoming portion of the discourse , as in ( 88 ) , and that to a preceding portion , as in ( 89 ) : ( 88 ) I bet you have n't heard this story ( 89 ) That was the funniest story I 've ever heard Considerable confusion is likely to be caused here if we do not immediately make the distinction between discourse deixis and anaphora . |
| 12 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 13 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 14 | In the story I have just told , I explain how self-image dominated my life for a time . |
| 15 | This story , told from a child 's point of view , from the limited perspective of a small Welsh town , far away from the fighting , brought the sadness of war closer than any story I have ever heard . |
| 16 | ‘ It is the only beautiful story I have ever heard , ’ said Cyril . |
| 17 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 18 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 19 | ‘ In that case I 'd better come with you , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 20 | Just in case I had n't made this absolutely clear , I added , ‘ I 'll never forgive you and I 'll never apologize to you and I 'll never do anything you say . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 22 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 23 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 24 | I allowed Thursday as my backstop in case I have n't got my eleven . |
| 25 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 26 | This is quite the worst case I have ever heard of.It 's an outrage and proves that the government is quite wrong to claim that the health service is improving |
| 27 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 28 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 29 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 30 | Certainly , it brought about the beginnings of an emotional freedom I had not known , and a deeper commitment to radical politics . |