Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 2 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 3 | I do think there are problems and difficulties , I do n't think it will be easy , not least because we do n't have a shared morality and a shared consensus , on the objectives for the voluntary sector , but it is a set of concerns which we must address , er , and I believe that if , if I 've done nothing else today , I 've kicked off a debate , or I 've contributed to a debate which was already rolling , erm , and that we must address those difficulties , and try and find ways through them , because there are opportunities as well as threats in the current situation and I believe we have to look at all of those er , so that we can move into the nineteen nineties which I believe will be a very exciting period for the voluntary sector , and one which the voluntary sector should er , see as exciting , grab the opportunities and move forward . |
| 4 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 5 | or I 've lost it on t' way running for bus . |
| 6 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 7 | And er this is what I do , Well I used to do jobs round here for a while or I 've chucked it up now aye . |
| 8 | Either that , or I 've drowned . |
| 9 | Either that or I 've got wax in my ears . |
| 10 | Either that , or I 've got a secret penchant for women who attack me with briefcases and then do their best to alienate half my work-force . ’ |
| 11 | What we 've got to do is , or I 've got to do is to get our sister companies to visit the buggers . |
| 12 | But you might be talking to a client , says , but at the moment , I 've got no need , erm , or I 've got n no intention of buying now , but I might be buying in a year or two year 's time . |
| 13 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 14 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 15 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 16 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 17 | I found it more difficult to talk to him , somewhere he or I had changed . |
| 18 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 19 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 20 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 21 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 22 | Or I 'd thought of getting a teaching qualification — maybe starting my own commercial language school . ’ |
| 23 | Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ . |
| 24 | It appears that there are many points at which er we can identify with one another or I have found that I can identify with the church and its social responsibility in this country because of our experience in my country . |
| 25 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week ! |
| 27 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
| 28 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 29 | And gradually dust or you 've seen these er chemist shops where you 've got lots of er drawers in . |
| 30 | Or you 've done a tiny bit and you need something that 's not |