Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , to record a payment you 've made , you fill out a cheque onscreen . |
| 2 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 3 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 4 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 5 | which is something like speed , only it 's a bit it 's got a direction . |
| 6 | I do n't remember there having a break , we had the break at er midday but I do n't remember , if we , if we did we had to work you know what I mean , we just have I forget , that is a bit I 've forgotten |
| 7 | It 's a bit I 've got all two towels . |
| 8 | To leave a level you 've completed , pause the game and press Select . |
| 9 | Somewhere inside you may know that Super Ex is a stick you have created to beat yourself for imagined inadequacies . |
| 10 | The Arts Centre 's spokeswoman said : ‘ This is not a decision we have taken lightly or gleefully . |
| 11 | It was not a decision he had expected Massingham to welcome , and nor had he . |
| 12 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 13 | Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder . |
| 14 | To make matters worse the angler was using a rig he had bought from his local tackle shop . |
| 15 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 16 | It 's a trick they 've learned , presumably to keep themselves safe in confined spaces . |
| 17 | It was a trick she 'd learned long ago ; if you bit hard enough all you could think of was the pain ; the misery and sorrow , in that instance , faded into insignificance . |
| 18 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 19 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 20 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 21 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 22 | A toy I 've played with too often . |
| 23 | Having graduated from a BBC machine to a PC I have found your magazine the best for me because I like the practical side as well as the computing . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing really , except that last week Angy showed us a sketch she 'd done of him . |
| 25 | One evening when Zbo and Modi were sitting together in a café , Modigliani finished a sketch he had made and then tore the page out of his blue sketchbook . |
| 26 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 27 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 28 | Running out , he was back in a dark antagonistic Holland with a saviour he had forgotten , who said , ‘ I am the Light . ’ |
| 29 | Scar tissue all right ; a birthmark she 'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant . |
| 30 | ‘ It is an answer to a prayer I had stopped praying , ’ Wilson said , ‘ and you , not God , have answered it . ’ |