Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 2 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 3 | But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient . |
| 4 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 5 | Seeking to print the problem of a correspondent whose small son had , " taken a little girl behind the settee and pulled her knickers down " , she found her sub-editor had deleted the latter part of the quoted sentence and substituted , " taken off part of her underclothes " . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 7 | After housing , the service in which privatisation has made the most progress is the NHS , inroads have been made on several interrelated fronts . |
| 8 | More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing . |
| 9 | Our wheat and our maize have experienced the same fate that befell our apples and pears . |