Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
3 | Where would they think I 'd gone to ? |
4 | ‘ Lewis , ’ Hari said in exasperation , ‘ please give me credit for some sense , how do you think I 've survived on my own since my father died ? |
5 | ‘ I do n't think I 've heard of them . ’ |
6 | I do n't think I 've heard of that impetigo Doctor to be honest . |
7 | I do n't think I 've thought about anything else since it happened . |
8 | However , she has n't let it get to her : ‘ I do n't think I have suffered from the male domination thing as much as other women might because I 'm a belligerent , stubborn , loud-mouthed bastard , basically ! ’ |
9 | ‘ Now I must write to Ellen , ’ Wilson sobbed , ‘ and she will think I have bowed to her wishes and feel even more the mistress of the situation . ’ |
10 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
11 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
12 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
13 | I mean I 've said to him answer him back like you would but he , he , the thing is he just thumps them , he just thumps and kicks and hits |
14 | Anyway , there we are , erm so I mean there are things like that also er we need to work out how we divvy up the exam fee , I mean I 've said to B A I E but they have n't so far |
15 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
16 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
17 | I mean I 've stood on our our bridge and looked down . |
18 | I mean I 've heard of the Four Horseman and the Apocalypse but I never know who wrote it . |
19 | I know , but , mum that , that was , that was five years ago , I mean I 've moved on a great deal since then |
20 | Here , I mean I 've seen like , ten-year-old girls in there , but really pretty ten-year-old girls , you know what I mean , blue eyes and blonde hair from them flats . |
21 | I mean I 've stayed at home for nearly four years now . |
22 | And I appreciate and I mean I 've discussed with you the , the complications or you 've got to keep open certain hours because you 've got a catering facility and you 've got certain members of staff and you 've got to keep projectionists occupied etcetera . |
23 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
24 | But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what |
25 | If a guy I mean I 've worked for farmers I I actually worked for a farmer once from seven o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock at night for five quid . |
26 | It 's not that though , er , I mean I 've worked with a mental handicap and , it gets to the stage whe like you say though I 'm not just touching you , I 'm just And the strength they 've got , you 're their strength . |
27 | Aye yeah that 's that that that I mean I 've went to that doctor and and it 's like a doctor 's surgery surely is should be sacrament yo you should n't , know what I mean ? |
28 | Well I mean I 've got to er alter this because I I 've got to do a dropped sl sleeve but I could n't |
29 | But they keep thinking I mean I 've got like forty days holiday my staff to get in in fif in fifty days left . |
30 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |