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Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub .
2	Perhaps you 're exhausted where you 've had a gear problem .
3	If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay
4	He escaped in his pyjamas , and the plaster of Paris on his leg was sopping wet where he had fallen in a ditch , but he was in good spirits .
5	Moreover , hospital early discharge schemes have been slow to develop , yet are immensely popular where they have taken root .
6	Life in the office was tense , but the work was far more interesting than she had imagined it would be .
7	Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her .
8	She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother .
9	People need to account for their time for many different reasons and so your final template may look quite different once you have tailored it to your needs .
10	He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift .
11	Now they 're not the easiest things to speak into because the noise volume of the traffic is quite horrendous so you have to shout .
12	Nor should we ignore the fact that in the not-too-distant future eastern Europe and Russia will be able to realise their massive agricultural potantial once they have become fully harnessed to a market economy .
13	But , remember these are wet so you have to leave them out , flat to dry .
14	But the truth is that Uncle Buck , the film , has been rendered totally superfluous once you 've seen the trailer you have seen the film .
15	The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture .
16	The reaction of spectators was less marked than I had expected .
17	It had been pleasantly surprised to find that , after years when nobody had bothered to find out , political control over the investment decisions was more direct than anyone had realized .
18	Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far .
19	The ranks of the discontented were also swelled by returning soldiers who found things less rosy than they had hoped .
20	We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected .
21	He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’
22	They could n't have been more wrong if they 'd worn Father Christmas suits .
23	You 'd have had that one wrong if you 'd done that .
24	Never admit that anything can be wrong until they 've got to . ’
25	It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances .
26	Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ?
27	or six gins — turn surly if they 've got it wrong .
28	All this is programmatic until we have shown what the crucial sceptical argument is .
29	And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) .
30	That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher .