Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he was about to depart he looked back upon his own home , and when he saw his hall deserted , the household chests unfastened , the doors open , no cloaks hanging up , no seats in the porch , no hawks upon the perches , the tears came into his eyes , and he said , My enemies have done this … |
| 2 | I was afraid Richard would mind , but , as it turned out , my election had happened at a convenient time . |
| 3 | His Lordship is hailed from the shore by a knight , who we are told is King Arthur , have you the sacrifice my Lord , who answers no , then take my sword and smite the water in front of the grot and see what my wizard has done , take also this dove and when asked , give it to the keeper . |
| 4 | There is a possible hint in ‘ King Arthur 's ’ words ‘ … see what my wizard has done … ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ My heart has gone out of it . ’ |
| 6 | " My heart has joined the Thousand , for my friend stopped running today , " he said to Blackberry , quoting a rabbit proverb . |
| 7 | You can pile on the guilt but my heart has turned to stone . |
| 8 | My heart has stopped , Alida Thorne said . |
| 9 | ‘ Would it be enough , ’ he whispered , ‘ if I told you I will love you for all time , that my heart has found its resting place , and my soul has found its mate ? |
| 10 | Dear Lennie , MY heart 's gone out to you this week . |
| 11 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 12 | There are lines round my eyes and my hair has become a hag 's rope . |
| 13 | Q I 've just had my first perm and I 'm a bit disappointed that my hair has lost its shine . |
| 14 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 15 | There is the age at which I will grow into my own maturation , and there is the age at which my hair has started to turn grey . |
| 16 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 17 | My ducks have supported me my whole life . |
| 18 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 19 | I mention this , as I am planning to visit you next week , to continue our discussion on euthanasia ( although I hope you will not be disappointed to discover that my views have altered ) . |
| 20 | Still , it gives me time to see if any of my contacts has heard anything . ’ |
| 21 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 22 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
| 23 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 24 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've entered every year for the past 15 years and my bike has covered the distance every time — with a few minor running repairs sometimes . |
| 26 | My bike 's tampered with ? |
| 27 | But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible . |
| 28 | A lot of my work has been concerned with this area and as my experience has grown I have learnt to wait until the people involved tell me they want to talk . |
| 29 | ‘ My experience has shown ’ , said an American steelmill superintendent in 1875 , ‘ that Germans , Irish , Swedes and what I denominate ‘ Buckwheats ’ — young American country boys — judiciously mixed , make the most effective and tractable force you can find' ; in fact , anything was better than ‘ Englishmen , who are great sticklers for high wages , small production and strikes ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ My ex-husband had kidnapped my daughter ’ |