Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have seen my expression , for he said , ‘ This car makes a noise if you do n't fasten your seat-belt , and a light starts flashing if you have n't closed the door . |
| 2 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 3 | I know you are funny sometimes , and some Bonnie just looks at you and she starts laughing and he has n't even said anything or something . |
| 4 | The party broke up when Father D'Arcy , whose life was organized round the liturgy , rose saying that he had to attend an obligatory office at Campion Hall . |
| 5 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 6 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 7 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
| 8 | As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others . |
| 9 | The sight of a fearsome bully , intent on picking a fight , may fill us with such terror when our imagination starts working that we have lost the battle before it has even begun . |
| 10 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 11 | now against an apple tree and I asking him I was it permissible to go scrumping and he had to converse with the maid I think |
| 12 | There had to be some around somewhere , from before he 'd quit smoking when he 'd first started to worry about his health . |
| 13 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 14 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 15 | In some parts of North America , women are advised not to go camping when they have a period . |
| 16 | I know she ai n't really interested in shop windows and that , but she do n't mind waiting while I have a look . |
| 17 | I do n't mind waiting until he 's got a moment free between patients . " |
| 18 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 19 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 20 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 21 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 22 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman has raised it , I reply assuming that he has received the permission of the family for it to be the subject of a public exchange . |
| 24 | I could not sleep knowing that I have done nothing . ’ |
| 25 | I certainly Mr Chairman welcome this paper erm and I know today that I think possibly the main reason being erm , I could be deemed also been through and through today responding to our local issue and that maybe due to May fever , I do n't know , erm , in really accepting acknowledging as I have done in the past your efforts , erm the county surveyor 's efforts for this part of Suffolk I do again bring to your attention and I do n't think is being critical in that the Barnet by bypass is part of a far bigger jigsaw and that jigsaw I say not |
| 26 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 27 | Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing — and drawing the figure especially . |
| 28 | Indeed the next hours after my return were spent explaining that we had no plans to use either troops or tanks and justifying what a BBC interviewer referred to as my ‘ controversial ’ four-day summer holiday . |
| 29 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 30 | They forced themselves to keep going but they had no enthusiasm . |