Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 2 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 3 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 4 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 5 | For one thing , Rose has kindly offered to help me find a place . ’ |
| 6 | Our situation is pressing and my father has therefore decided to let me go alone . |
| 7 | I can not bear this obscene , grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others , it has never failed to repel me . |
| 8 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 9 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |
| 11 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 12 | I could see his friends grinning among themselves ; probably there were more who had better cause to remember me . |
| 13 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 14 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 15 | You 've just got to tell me . |
| 16 | You 've just got to tell me . ’ |
| 17 | That evening , long after the dark had finally driven even me inside , I mentioned the beauty of the twilight . |
| 18 | My secretary said that Lindsay had just rung to say I should send over the goods ( our agreed coded message ) as soon as possible . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a wonderful opportunity , Christian , and I 'm grateful for your trust in me but you 've already agreed to sell me that fifty acres of new land . |
| 20 | You 've always wanted to see me broken . |
| 21 | The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it . |
| 22 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think |
| 24 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
| 25 | Several other Cas. girls had now started casting me speculative glances , but so far no-one had made any cracks to me , which was a relief . |
| 26 | He was much less eccentric , perhaps because he had transparently determined to pump me . |
| 27 | Robert had previously offered to show me round the zoo and explain the veterinary work he does there . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 29 | If you 're in a restricted area and you want somebody to do something you ca n't get to cranes in there , you 've actually got to say I 'll do that one and then I 'll do that one . |
| 30 | Miss Havisham had never intended to make me rich , or let me marry Estella . |