Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 2 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 3 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 4 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 5 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 6 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 7 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 8 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 9 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 10 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 11 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 12 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 13 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 14 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 15 | My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole . |
| 16 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 17 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 18 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 19 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 20 | Those amiable but blatantly incompetent buffoons have brought me to the wrong fucking airport ! |
| 21 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 22 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 23 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 24 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 25 | ‘ Candy 's kept me in the picture . ’ |
| 26 | Now that my hon. Friend has brought me to the matter , it is right to put on record the comments of the chairman of British Coal in the press release . |
| 27 | The ball had hit me in the leg . |
| 28 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 29 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 30 | The feeble God has stabbed me to the heart . ’ |