Example sentences of "be [adv] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | After all he had been through he had missed the longest standing running record of them all by just one mile ! |
| 3 | After what I have been through I have changed my mind completely . ’ |
| 4 | Erm unless it 's actually a meeting that you 're recording use the other things cos they 're just they 've got bigger spaces for writing down what people 's first words were and stuff like that , |
| 5 | Oh no they 're not they 've shoved them down there |
| 6 | still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious |
| 7 | Yeah , they 're like they 've got a big fleet of them . |
| 8 | I board the plane feeling no pain , eat the evening meal and continue with the G&T theme , land in Gatwick and make the connection via the smoking area of the bar and another gulped Gordon 's , then pass on the second offered dinner but not the accompanying booze and quietly pass out somewhere over the West Midlands , to be woken by a dishy blonde with an impudent , dimpled smile and we 're here we 've landed we 've arrived , we 're on the stand at the airport and I 'd ask her what she 's doing later because I 'm drunk enough to not care when she says ‘ No ’ as she probably will , but I know I 'm too tired and besides my left eyelid 's stuck again and I suspect it makes me look a bit like Quasimodo , so I do n't say anything except , ‘ Uh , thanks , ’ which is cool or sad , I 'm not sure which . |
| 9 | The two rivers are very different to look at , or at least they have been whenever I have seen them . |
| 10 | But it 's lasted about seven year , so you never can organ but once we did start I did enjoy the ones over here because over there when your kids were small you did n't go out much anyway but now that your kids are up you 've got it , and personally I enjoyed the ones that started but they do n't have Christmas dance , barn dances and things like this , they do n't org we have to have to organize like that ourself . |
| 11 | Yeah , we 've been out we 've gone out for six weeks tomorrow . |
| 12 | I 'm all she 's got now . |
| 13 | And she knew only too well how stubborn Julius could be once he had got an idea inside his head . |
| 14 | That was what had caused it , of course , of that she was convinced , or would be once she 'd had time to work on it ! |
| 15 | Right , well we 've only got erm not much more than ten minutes left erm , I 'm ri I 'm well we 've got to be we 've got to be early for lunch so you 'll need to go |
| 16 | And I recommend to anybody who goes on the school , I 'm sure they do on the training course , that the first opportunity I would have to address erm the con er the staff meeting , you just say this is what I who I am this is why I 'm here I 've got a list of businesses which the school has provided with me already but I I will I may erm if I bump into you in the corridor I may just say do you know anybody else . |
| 17 | No , yeah , well that 'd be twice we 've seen him |
| 18 | he could be there he 's got a note for fifteen cos he had flu for three weeks therefore he 's attendance . |
| 19 | That 'll be where they 've left they |
| 20 | I mean , that could be why he 's gone off to Scunthorpe , could n't it ? |
| 21 | That might be why he 's gone away . |
| 22 | Since I 've been here I 've lost all track of time ! |
| 23 | been here I 've changed it once |
| 24 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 25 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 26 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 27 | After the death of her husband in the war , she might well have doted on her daughter , as being all she had left . |
| 28 | a all being well we 've sorted that . |
| 29 | He had n't wondered where her clothes were when he 'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term . |
| 30 | Carl said he , he looked er well er , his face did , it were very he 's got a very poxy skin . |