Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [vb pp] in " in BNC.

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1 The lack of space , the cold , the absence of hot water — all these contingencies I negotiated with the skills I had acquired in domestic science ( my best subject ) and as a Girl Guide .
2 ‘ Mind you , I 've been shocked by some of the secrets I 've uncovered in ordinary bedrooms .
3 I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure .
4 The cities I had seen in England and France left me unmoved ; their crowds had no interest for me : they lacked the colour and variety for which I craved .
5 I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final .
6 To throw in the towel would mean the end of misery , a shower , clean sheets , good food and reunion with my family after the months I had spent in training camp .
7 I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely .
8 I Want A Cat by Tony Ross ( Red Fox , £3.99 ) now out in paperback , has to be one of the funniest picture books I 've seen in years .
9 I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures .
10 The problem with the period-instrument performances I have heard in recent times is a technical one : they do not play in tune .
11 Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ .
12 Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word :
13 Yet not all have been so fastidious : of the last eight Rameau recordings I have reviewed in Early music , four have been based on the Oeuvres complètes , three derived from the most unreliable volumes .
14 c ) Add up the three angles of the four other triangles you have drawn in this exercise .
15 I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions .
16 Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems .
17 Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels .
18 ensure that any roles you have used in your process model definition have been declared in the ROLES.DAT file in your process directory ( ie. where the .
19 Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’
20 The sensations she had experienced in Bruges were mere frissons compared with this storm of need …
21 Any different shapes you have noticed in the rapid pattern of flowing speech will vary depending on the speaker , but even so , some shapes will be slightly different from others .
22 The extent of this TNF α immunoreactivity confirms that the very high concentrations we have detected in stools during relapse of inflammatory bowel disease give a more accurate estimate of local inflammation than does the modest increase in serum TNF α .
23 Synthesis of LTB 4 by gastric mucosal epithelial cells has been reported and it is possible that these are an important source of the increased concentrations we have seen in patients taking NSAIDs .
24 Of course , unemployment brings great difficulties in its train and no one regrets that more than I. That is why in recent months we have put in place the widest range of measures that we have ever had to help unemployed people get back to work .
25 When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north .
26 But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games .
27 I do n't think they 'll concede the sort of easy goals they have allowed in past World Cups . ’
28 ‘ Often I have bent my way to the great entrance of Studley and seen twenty or more carriages waiting , unhorsed , for the return of the parties they had deposited in the morning and who were now rambling in all directions .
29 In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 .
30 The Rowans plans to run the mares on 112 acres they have bought in Perthshire .
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