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 .
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