Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair 's mostly gone . |
| 2 | I 've no teeth now , and my hair has all fallen out , but I can still think — and remember . |
| 3 | Your last kind blessing to my Pamela has quite melted me . |
| 4 | ‘ My contract 's still got time to run . ’ |
| 5 | Once or twice my mum has even gone into a light trance , and , though she has n't yet contacted anyone interesting , we have great hopes of her . |
| 6 | My mum has never told me to have a goal . |
| 7 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 8 | I can not say that any of my knitting has ever graced the shelves at Harrods , but my crochet has ! |
| 9 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 10 | ‘ I think my luck has finally changed , ’ he said happily . |
| 11 | In the interim , as an earnest of the importance that we attach to this matter , my Department has today issued article 14 directions to prevent the county councils from granting permission for the applications for the time being . |
| 12 | My Department has vigorously pursued reported delays with the authorities concerned . |
| 13 | My Department has recently received a numbe of representations from hon. Members and the general public on matters relating to military low-flying training . |
| 14 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 15 | It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had . |
| 16 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 17 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 18 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
| 19 | My roof has no felt on the underside . |
| 20 | My work has always paralleled my life experiences . |
| 21 | He says : ‘ I 'm thrilled my dream 's finally come true . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My child has never heard the sound of laughter , ’ said the woman , ‘ and I do n't want him to die without hearing it . ’ |
| 23 | My sigh has evidently offended her . |
| 24 | I 'm due to be married next Easter , and my fiancé has just told me he likes dressing up in women 's clothes . |
| 25 | That room the paint to my eye has either faded or changed colour or something . |
| 26 | My grandma 's still got my grandad 's stuff somewhere . ’ |
| 27 | If two years is n't enough to consider the proposals that my group have consistently put forward , I do n't know how long it 's . |
| 28 | without asking , it comes up on the er have er , I 'll ask her first hello it 's the G P G engineer love , yeah , er my pager 's just gone off , is it okay to use my telephone just to answer it please ? |
| 29 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 30 | ‘ I have sent messages there but the boy returned and said my husband had already left . |