Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The command that Christ has given us is this : whoever loves God must love his brother [ teacher ] also ( 1 John 4:20–21 ) . |
| 2 | The command that Christ has given us is this : whoever loves God must love ‘ Boggers ’ also ! ! |
| 3 | SINN Fein President Gerry Adams has claimed there is little active support internationally for the Unionist cause . |
| 4 | The results , though , are generally unimpressive , mainly because — as on the Isle of Dogs , for example — lack of an overall masterplan has meant there is little cohesiveness . |
| 5 | ‘ I invited you because your mother told me that you 'd realised there were more things in life than work — at long last , ’ Simon said pithily , ‘ and were in the market for some socialising . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd known I was that unpopular … ’ |
| 8 | So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father . |
| 9 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You should have said you were that way , Monica , ’ said Jan . |
| 11 | You may have noticed they are all tree oils ! |
| 12 | You will have noticed there are some pregnant gaps on this table . |
| 13 | What it should have told them is that terrorism makes it harder , not easier , to gain a hearing in a democracy . |
| 14 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 15 | There 's no one standing there so it 's getting caught up in that traffic jam at the bridge I would have thought they 're all queuing to get on the bridge in the morning . |
| 16 | ‘ He likes to be adored of course , and maybe he 's just lobbying for an extension of his fan club , but I would n't have thought he was that desperate . |
| 17 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 18 | You 'd have thought he was some fat cardinal from Rome . |
| 19 | She said it was tragic because of Kezia , and the way she went on you 'd have thought it was all my fault . |
| 20 | There is no reason to think that Anselm would have thought there was any contradiction between personal humility and the display of the greatness of his office : quite the contrary , humility and grandeur met in the exercise of his function as a ruler . |
| 21 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's no way they could have known there was another letter . ’ |
| 23 | The method of working was fine and you would n't have known there were any interruptions when you saw the programme . |
| 24 | I 've been trying to work out which issue of Woodworker — while editor — I thought was best , and as none come directly to mind , I 'd have to say it is this one . |
| 25 | You seem to have forgotten we were all children together . ’ |
| 26 | I should n't think many men would have dared to have written it was all her then , in the first person |
| 27 | Miranda had wished she was that little bit taller , slimmer , more elegant , wished she had washed her hair that morning , wished wished wished with all her heart that the completely miraculous would happen and Miles would fall in love with her . |
| 28 | She had said there was less chance of being burdened down with a large brood and less risk of losing the husband to another woman . |
| 29 | But Carl had said there was some problems there |
| 30 | And Ward had said it was all fixed , he would join us on Isvik and navigate us to within sledging distance of the trapped vessel . |