Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 2 | She swore , but lay where she had fallen . |
| 3 | An overhit forehand from Sampras who , despite offering a far more solid challenge against Forget than he had done against Leconte , was still not as consistent enough with his groundstrokes as one would have expected from someone who had become ATP Tour champion two weeks earlier , made it 15–0 . |
| 4 | ‘ And I apologise if I 've interrupted your work . ’ |
| 5 | Add the mushrooms to the stew , drop in the dumplings and cook until they have risen to the surface and look fluffy . |
| 6 | Yes , erm I read up quite a lot of things about keeping pests away , but I do n't dad reads them and tells me about them , but I forget cos they have to go back |
| 7 | I simply ask you to listen , and not to judge what I say until I have finished . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We can summon them any time we want if we have to go somewhere . |
| 10 | But in the main we will lift whatever they want if they 've got something like that in existence if not we 'll do it for them . |
| 11 | and you 're forever in and out , in and out , in and out of that , it 's alright say if we 've got somebody in there that was in the |
| 12 | As I say if they 've gone unconscious then , or fainted , you 've got to call an ambulance . |
| 13 | Yes but I mean how you say if they 'd played their cards right , but are you saying just go down there and say to him ‘ get off ? ’ |
| 14 | Just say if she 's soaked some stuff written on it . |
| 15 | Because as I say if you 've got to clean them up afterwards , the costs are horrendous . |
| 16 | Well what I would what I would do erm I would rather have a commitment for a date to start when you go out of here and if you say if you 've got if you 've got something that comes up then fine . |
| 17 | Or say if you 've got a ten or eleven running off . |
| 18 | You know say if you 've got a number of E O saying well I would like training in this |
| 19 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 20 | And I suppose may be it 's may be if somebody got that , that 's why I say if you have to buy the property first . |
| 21 | because I say if he 's got a key and he can get in |
| 22 | Well say if it 's mixed with erm sodium hydroxide . |
| 23 | well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ? |
| 24 | She even survived the appraising looks of the women and smiled when she heard one of them say after she had passed , ‘ What beautiful English skin . ’ |
| 25 | Muscles only actually grow after they have recovered from a hard training session . |
| 26 | I think I 'm just gon na go round me girlfriend 's and sleep after she 's given me my food . |
| 27 | raise so you 've got a lovely figure in the , on the oak , |
| 28 | need n't be , I mean once they 've got all of this the form tutor one need n't be anything . |
| 29 | So I should n't imagine that erm I mean once we 've got through this one I 'm blowed if I 'm going to do it |
| 30 | I mean once I 've cleared up , you know , when she 's gone and and do n't mind seeing |