Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 2 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 3 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 4 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 5 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 6 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 7 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 8 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 9 | For years I had stood upon those scales and willed the reading down . |
| 10 | To avoid confronting him and coming to blows with him , I had skirted round these topics too long . |
| 11 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 12 | My dad and I had talked about these things so rarely . |
| 13 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 14 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 15 | I 've said before that combos are ultimately a compromised amp/speaker setup , due primarily to the demand for portability . |
| 16 | There 's many a time wished I 'd had one of them buggers when I 've gone to these meetings , union meetings and that . |
| 17 | But , er , so I 've appeared in these places , purely because I 'm , injustice , you know , stirs me up . |
| 18 | I 've escaped from many places with this … ’ |
| 19 | although that is the only error I 've made in these figures I , not myself |
| 20 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 21 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 22 | I 've fought in more battles than you 'd be likely to believe . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 24 | I 've spoken to many knitters about the N1 cam and the comment I hear so often is ‘ Oh , I was told was told always to put it in the centre of the machine , or ( worse ! ) at the edge of my knitting ’ . |
| 25 | I 've dealt with many men like him over the years and I 'm under no illusions as to his character . |
| 26 | Er this is alright we 've done it informally in the past , you know I 've talked to many clients some of which I handle some of which I do n't and always the question is er are we giving erm a service that we can improve on , if you look dealing with er are there any points you 'd like to raise with me , all these sort of questions but it 's all very unstructured er and sometimes it 's er er results in us having an action plan emerging , sometimes not . |
| 27 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 28 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 29 | Over the years , most of the players I have taught at all levels have benefitted from sensible practice , that is , well-organised drilling . |
| 30 | So er can I suggest that we actually ask the the Recreation Ground Committee to look at these problems over the er I do n't think there are any significant problems actually after the , after the Easter weekend fortunately , but just to have er in reply to the city football club , because they are concerned , and have been I have to say for many years , so it 's not unusual . |