Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 2 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 3 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |
| 4 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 5 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 6 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 7 | ‘ That is the noisiest frog I 've ever had in this laboratory , ’ snapped Miss Hardbroom with a piercing glance at the jar . |
| 8 | ‘ You know it was — more beautiful than anything I 've ever experienced in this whole world . ’ |
| 9 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 10 | mind , I 've never smoked in all me life so I do n't understand it really , I do n't er understand how people suffer really |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't know , ’ she said coolly , though her heart was making furious thunder inside her chest , ‘ as I 've never ridden in either vehicle . |
| 12 | An analogy such as I have just drawn in this three act drama of salvation can be dangerously misleading . |
| 13 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 14 | I have already considered in some detail the starting point for these studies — Lawrence 's ( 1949 ) experiment . |
| 15 | Harold summed up by saying the discussion had been first-class : ‘ the best I have ever heard in this type of gathering ’ . |
| 16 | He is in the hall at this moment ’ , sends me into a panic not milder certainly than any I have ever felt in all the catastrophes of War and Peace . |
| 17 | As I have often said in these ‘ Notes ’ , Athletico is a forward-looking club and so thoughts must now turn to next season . |
| 18 | … as I have often noted in this diary , Harold [ Wilson ] is extraordinarily sensitive on the issue of Party pledges , and when I approached him privately he said , ‘ This is a party pledge which has to be fulfilled ’ . |
| 19 | This is something I have never done in any of my books . |
| 20 | I have never felt in any way uncomfortable . ’ |
| 21 | We talked about the Dublin Review , where my Basic English article had been published , and referred to a characteristically splenetic article by Montgomery Belgion which had also appeared in that journal . |
| 22 | Sir Gordon Borrie , Director General of Fair Trading , has advised consumers to beware of advertisements by ‘ certain so- called credit repair companies which have recently appeared in some newspapers ’ . |
| 23 | The court must consider appointing as guardian anyone who has previously acted in this capacity for the child but is not obliged to re-appoint . |
| 24 | Hateley , who has now scored in both European ties against Lyngby and Leeds , added : ‘ Any side coming to Ibrox will find it tough against 45,000 screaming Scots . |
| 25 | She has also appeared in several national magazines due to her prowess at sewing a fine seam . |
| 26 | But had you had presumably training in all these things |
| 27 | It , it 's , it 's not you , it 's not until you 've probably worked in another place and come here or go |
| 28 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 29 | Sitting alone and still grieving , in the one-bedroom bungalow , she did something she had never done in all her 38 years of married life . |
| 30 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |