Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle . |
| 2 | Where once she had felt secure she now felt alone . |
| 3 | Where once she had dithered over choosing a suit for a new day at school , now imminence brought her fast to action — at least in the short term . |
| 4 | Even so , quick set hedges were planted on either side of these roads to fence them in , where formerly they had wandered at large . |
| 5 | Yet the Germans , by their insensitivity in these matters , actually created the very spectres they sought to exorcise ; they conjured a growing Polish national feeling where virtually none had existed before . |
| 6 | In some cases the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where virtually none had existed : this was most evident in the Baltic provinces dominated by a Germanic aristocracy and in the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland . |
| 7 | Physical Changes The day after the lesson you may become aware of tensions in some muscles or you may feel an ache where previously you have had no trouble . |
| 8 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 9 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 10 | It 's a slightly different way of looking at neuron networks than perhaps we 've seen before . |
| 11 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 12 | She 's now able to walk around the house although outside she has to use a wheelchair . |
| 13 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
| 14 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
| 15 | A lot of the jokes tended to go straight over his head , but there was always some good stuff about the management and more than once he 'd noticed senior people leaving with red faces before it ended . |
| 16 | He had achieved it more easily and more quickly than ever he had expected . |
| 17 | than ever I 've done ! |
| 18 | We are well and have no worries being happy together and not in need William leaving me better provided for than ever I had expected . |
| 19 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 20 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 21 | The light in mid-river was silver , and the current stronger than any we had seen in Egypt . |
| 22 | ‘ Much worse than any we 've had , ’ he shouted . |
| 23 | ( This may indeed reflect the fact that such adjectives seem in some way to constitute a more sophisticated manipulation of language than any we have seen in the adjectives discussed before ) . |
| 24 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 25 | Sometimes she claimed that the wine her friend had brought was ‘ sweeter than any you have given me ’ . |
| 26 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 27 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 28 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 29 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 30 | She could feel a joy greater than any she had known gently bubbling inside her . |