Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 My private idea , which I hardly dare mention in case I 've got it all wrong , is that you were copying the style of some book or other to see if I would recognize it .
2 Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground ,
3 I goes mum I 've heard it all before !
4 Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court .
5 Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings .
6 But in other respects she had had her own way .
7 And there ca n't be many fashion designers who have to shear their own fabrics .
8 Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives .
9 In Waves we 've had them all from ‘ yours thankingly ’ to ‘ up yours . ’
10 Oh they do , yeah , when we go down er , er down to Alan 's they , David he 's got it all
11 and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job .
12 Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) .
13 The government introduced coupons for food , alcohol and tobacco on Nov. 10 to protect the Byelarus economy from a flood of roubles from neighbouring Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states which had introduced their own currencies .
14 In the name of modernisation and professionalism , Chinese architects and civil engineers are not prepared to accept for the towns any of those policies which have made their own rural housing programme a model for the Third World .
15 He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago .
16 I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France .
17 I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life .
18 Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind .
19 THANKS IBM : THAT 's ANOTHER FINE MESS YOU 'VE GOT US ALL INTO
20 Karen you 've got your own .
21 General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland .
22 I was a child who 'd lost his own mother , and was looking for affection .
23 The most difficult task of all is to pass judgement on a child who has given his all , but whom I can no longer see reaching the goal I have set .
24 Was this really the girl who had thought it all so ‘ boring ’ a few weeks earlier ?
25 The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants .
26 I know that three days before they were killed , twenty-five people were invited to that house for the mass whipping of a dealer from Sunset Strip who 'd given them some bad dope .
27 By the end , by the end of the afternoon she 'd done it all .
28 Two years later Arp was living in Zurich , a member of a group of talented émigré artists who had left their own countries because of the war .
29 But since we took her away from the convent she has worried us both to death .
30 then there 's Steve Bennett and his dad from Ross on Wye who 've built their own car …
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