Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told myself that I had up to two hundred and no more . |
| 2 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 3 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 4 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 5 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |
| 6 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 7 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 8 | yesterday I have n't for four for five years . |
| 9 | I 've already told him I 'm gon na get my arse kicked cos I have n't for eight you see . |
| 10 | Anyway I have n't about any of the newfangled ideas . |
| 11 | I have not at any time or in any capacity written to Cllr Anderson . |
| 12 | I have not at any point heard Judge Tumim suggest that such a crime is appropriate . |
| 13 | I have not since 1918 been a religious woman . |
| 14 | I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing . |
| 15 | ‘ In the circumstances , you may find what I have here of some interest . ’ |
| 16 | He wrote a letter dated 20th February , 1842 , to Schwabe , his publisher in Dusseldorf saying that ‘ I have now after 18 months of work finished the sixth edition of my Organon , the most nearly perfect of all . ’ |
| 17 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
| 18 | ‘ I have never in all my professional life forgotten to switch the tape on , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Apparently , it produces more in the way of smog-causing emissions than a car which has up to 30 times its horse power . |
| 20 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 21 | The plan involved the replacement of the current 130 constituencies ( each of which had up to six seats ) with some 300 single-member constituencies , with the remaining 200 seats distributed on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 22 | Microscopic : The worms have large shallow buccal capsules which have up to 10 teeth at their base . |
| 23 | Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized . |
| 24 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 26 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 27 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
| 28 | I think you 'd better with this . |
| 29 | How how would how would what would you have out of thirty two pound . |
| 30 | She had not at all looked forward to being a débutante and wearing fancy women 's clothes , and not being allowed to climb trees , and accompany Papa , who always , said her mama despairingly , let her do exactly as she pleased . |