Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 2 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 3 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 4 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 5 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 6 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 7 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 8 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 9 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 10 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 11 | My conscience shouted that I had to inform . |
| 12 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 13 | The autumn statement yesterday demonstrated that we have substantially increased in real terms — after inflation — the spending in each of the three areas that my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 14 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 15 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 16 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 17 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 18 | Today he made a humiliating climb down in the Commons and demonstrated that he 'd lost his political touch — that he did n't realise how upset the voters would be if he put 30,000 — going on 100,000 — people out of work . |
| 19 | Mr Brown demonstrated that he has already utterly mastered the use of the sound-bite to get a headline phrase into the news bulletins . |
| 20 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |
| 21 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 22 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 23 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 24 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 25 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 26 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 27 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 28 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
| 29 | This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained . |
| 30 | Roger , an art historian , had first gone to the Mansions as Margaret 's friend , and maintained that she had said : ‘ Of course I never read Ivy 's trash . ’ |