Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 2 | Yeah well he said he has n't heard nothing like it before . |
| 3 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 4 | And the day , not long afterwards , when she 'd first heard someone call her father crazy . |
| 5 | You may have heard someone use the term ‘ customer relations ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ What the film wants to do is let everyone feel secure about life , about their own position in life , to feel that they can achieve the things they want . |
| 7 | You must have let someone go before now . |
| 8 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 9 | She would never have let someone like that come home with her . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You might have let someone know . |
| 12 | If you and your kind had made it obligatory for a ship to carry a drogue , all ready bent , for letting go , I would have let one go . |
| 13 | He had let something slide . |
| 14 | She must have talked to your mother for some time , she must have let something slip . ’ |
| 15 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 16 | Erm , we have n't let anyone disagree with that either . |
| 17 | How long had it been since she had let anyone come this close , comfort her , try to ease her fears ? |
| 18 | Another thing I was gon na ask you about was erm I 'd heard somebody mention ploughing competitions with horses . |
| 19 | He had seen nothing pass between Suragai and any woman , but now he wondered if there was something he had missed . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never seen nothing like it , ’ he said . |
| 21 | A throne with 1,000 years of history has seen nothing like this before . |
| 22 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 23 | In all its long journey from the heart of Africa , it has seen nothing like this : the tall modern buildings sprouting suddenly along its banks , the incessant flow of traffic across bridges , the noise , the confusion . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've seen nothing like that , ’ she said . |
| 25 | I 've seen maggots brown , I 've seen them white , I 've seen them red and crawling , but I never seen nothing like this in my life before ! |
| 26 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 27 | We 'll have seen nothing like it before in boxing history . |
| 28 | The specialist said he had seen nothing like it in a football injury . |
| 29 | Well I ai n't seen nothing like that on there have you ? |
| 30 | you 've never seen nothing like it |