Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
| 2 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 3 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 4 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 5 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 6 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 7 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 8 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 9 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 10 | ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am . |
| 11 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
| 12 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
| 13 | The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger . |
| 14 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 15 | It was like nothing I 'd ever experienced before — so much feeling , so much exquisite joy . |
| 16 | ‘ 'T WAS like nothing I 've ever felt before either . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like nothing I 've ever laid eyes on before . ’ |
| 18 | The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers . |
| 19 | I was conducting my research with the staff of a school with whom I had previously worked . |
| 20 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 21 | This certainly stuck a chord with the pilot whom I had just photographed as he flew his newly-restored P-40 for the first time . |
| 22 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 23 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 24 | An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help . |
| 25 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 26 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 27 | Paradouze was the only person to whom I 'd ever felt close . |
| 28 | Oh God I can st I can still remember Auntie Edie and her mouth full of rotten teeth , oh dear , whom I 'd never met before |
| 29 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 30 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |