Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [verb] [pers pn] [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 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
5 | In Waves we 've had them all from ‘ yours thankingly ’ to ‘ up yours . ’ |
6 | Oh they do , yeah , when we go down er , er down to Alan 's they , David he 's got it all |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
10 | THANKS IBM : THAT 's ANOTHER FINE MESS YOU 'VE GOT US ALL INTO |
11 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
12 | Was this really the girl who had thought it all so ‘ boring ’ a few weeks earlier ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | By the end , by the end of the afternoon she 'd done it all . |
15 | But since we took her away from the convent she has worried us both to death . |
16 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
17 | Another point which has given me some concern is that the present book is supposed to be a directory of Cabinet Committees . |
18 | The point which has struck me most ( in my myopic way ) has been the abrupt disappearance at this level , all over the world , of the atrypid brachiopods . |
19 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
20 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
21 | After two days or so of ice-breaking we have found them all pleasant and cooperative , and eager to take advantage of the books , etc. that we have brought . |
22 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |
23 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
24 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |
25 | But once again on the phone you have to tell them that 's what you want to discuss when you come round . |
26 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
27 | ‘ The next minute he 'd picked them both up and thrown them out of the window . ’ |
28 | Stewart is still battling to fully shake off hamstring trouble which has plagued him all season . |
29 | I want to find the answers to certain whys and wherefores which have puzzled me all my life . ’ |
30 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |