Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 2 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 3 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 4 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 5 | But remembering the faith I have met , and shared , with men of all races , in the unfolding pattern of God 's will , I take courage afresh . |
| 6 | In faith I have applied to go to Sydney , Australia in September . |
| 7 | Boatbuilders would probably say that the 38ft yacht I have described is too expensive to produce . |
| 8 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 9 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 10 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 11 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 12 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was looking for a hiding place for some stupid necklace I 'd bought , and the bureau was the nearest thing to hand ! ’ |
| 14 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 15 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 16 | Can I say , I , I can express concern about that because I think that in terms of funding I 've written A short term and B long term erm I think we 've got a short term problem and |
| 17 | I 've only got the base I 've lost the top . |
| 18 | My closest friend actually , she 's got really straight , red hair — it 's the most beautiful hair I 've seen . |
| 19 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |
| 20 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 21 | Recessions come and go , but this is the worst recession I 've seen . |
| 22 | Bobby McAlpine , chairman of Alfred McAlpine , says grimly : ‘ This is infinitely the worst construction recession I have come across in 42 years in the industry . ’ |
| 23 | Of course McDunn points out that I could still be the murderer ; this could all be a story I 've made up . |
| 24 | The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’ |
| 25 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 26 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 27 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 28 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 29 | And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder . |
| 30 | The saddest story I have heard is one of a blind German boy who had a Rottweiler as his special pet . |