Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
| 2 | He says the course has helped me get to grips with the kids otherwise they 'd run wild . |
| 3 | On one occasion Mrs Singh had asked me to go with her to visit one of the boy 's teachers . |
| 4 | I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think about this . |
| 5 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 6 | Alan had asked me to arrive in good time with the Registration of Death certificate and , equally important apparently , the cheque , without which the cremation could not take place . |
| 7 | No wonder the seventh morning with its seventh sun had left me craving for Transylvanian dissolution . |
| 8 | " Matthew has asked me to work for him again . " |
| 9 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 10 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 11 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 12 | She did n't say why , but went on : " Seeing you two with that bit of a tree 's made me feel like celebrating . |
| 13 | ‘ My father has asked me to talk to you on a certain matter . |
| 14 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 15 | From the bottom of my pocket I produced a silver ta'wiz , the Sufi charm Zakir had suggested I purchase as a gift for Chaman . |
| 16 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 17 | Interestingly he 's talking about — this is written on the third of May , talking about the present splendid weather , which is , plus the recent report that too many British industrialists are making themselves ill because they do n't take their holidays has prompted me to write to you about our holidays . |
| 18 | Simon Murison-Bowie has asked me to write to you to let you know the current situation regarding the Wonderworld artwork . |
| 19 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 20 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 21 | You do n't know how many girls have begged me to come to the Casablanca Club , and you are the only one I have asked . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ George has told me to look after my weight . |
| 23 | Writing this book has encouraged me to reflect upon the changes which have occurred in primary education in England and Wales since the end of World War II . |
| 24 | But this spring 's burst of blossom on older trees in the garden has had me thumbing through the catalogues again . |
| 25 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 26 | Cool as you like , Paul bloody Lexington has asked me to sit in the wings for the entire run of this play and feed Micky Banks his lines ! ’ |
| 27 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 28 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 29 | These musings have made me burst into verse : |
| 30 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |