Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 2 | Maybe her request sounded foolish , but the prospect of facing Robert after everything that had happened between them was disturbing . |
| 3 | ‘ After everything that 's happened , we ca n't stay here . ’ |
| 4 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 5 | Over the past five months , despite everything that has gone wrong with his adventure in Kuwait , he has calmly refused to bow to pressure , whether political , economic or military . |
| 6 | Despite everything that has happened in the interim , the new edition , which includes only minor revisions , is still a thought-provoking and comprehensive primer on the future . |
| 7 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 8 | What was said tongue-in-cheek was received as confirmation of everything that had gone before : the Prince of Wales was seriously out of his tree . |
| 9 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 10 | 1984–87 — house music and the electronic transformation in Chicago of everything that had gone before . |
| 11 | He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire . |
| 12 | She was the incarnation of everything that had gone amiss in Sylvie 's own life . |
| 13 | He had succeeded in pleasing her in spite of everything that had happened . |
| 14 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 15 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 16 | If you do something at speed , it 's really the accumulation of everything that 's gone before that has got you to that point . |
| 17 | all the consultation that also talks about in this paper is met with the two centres , the management committee of Highfields youth and commune centre and also the users of the Moat Centre and I think in light of everything that 's gone on I think it 's substantially a success to stand here and say that we have at least achieved some result and I I formally would welcome the Libs supporting this this afternoon and I 'm grateful for the turn that the Libs have made and in light of er what er Mr the involvement Mr has put in . |
| 18 | In spite of everything that 's happened ? ’ |
| 19 | The English Tourist Board 's half of that erm is designed to persuade us , to persuade the British that erm is the year that we should discover Britain , this is the year that we should stay at home and take our holidays in the view of everything that 's happened , and in view of prices overseas . |
| 20 | This last task is possibly the most difficult because the audience must be convinced that the ending chosen is the only possible outcome of everything that has gone before . |
| 21 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 22 | So there is a very strong sense , produced by both the narrative and the musical design , that the mad-scene ( hallowed operatic device that it is ) is a truthful climax of everything that has preceded it . |
| 23 | In view of everything that has happened since that time , this distinction is important . |
| 24 | Though sudden , this moment is an accumulation of everything that has happened in the course of our travels . |
| 25 | This may have been because he defined " help " to himself as a putting right of something that had gone wrong , a restoration of some earlier , good " normal " state , and he was not sure that such a state had existed or could exist . |
| 26 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 27 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 28 | I accept it as part of something that has to happen . |
| 29 | It looks , though , as if it will be another step towards the end of something that has had its day . |
| 30 | She 'd been so angry , after seeing the first picture of him with Dara , that she 'd wanted to get rid of anything that had reminded her of their time together . |