Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to be from now on , ’ he said , ‘ now that I 've made you come . |
| 3 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
| 4 | Did n't want her to chuck herself off a bridge , so I 've let her have one of my rooms . ’ |
| 5 | It was a waste of time him going but he nagged so much that she had to let him go . |
| 6 | He remembered very clearly that she had made him look a fool . |
| 7 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 8 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 9 | There was even speculation that she had helped him write it . |
| 10 | What happened to the one that you had did you give it back in ? |
| 11 | Once you had heard him conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic , you could never forget things like that famous pianissimo — not just because it was soft , but because it was incredibly intensive . |
| 12 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 13 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 14 | And when the blur does clear , we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves . |
| 15 | Indicating the calf , he said , ‘ We 're hoping to keep this one for breeding , so we 've let it suckle for the normal period . |
| 16 | If a cat stuck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 17 | If a cat struck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 18 | They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television . |
| 19 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |
| 20 | And when they were espoused the King did them great honour , and gave them many noble gifts , and added to Rodrigo 's lands more than he had till then possessed : and he loved him greatly in his heart , because he saw that he was obedient to his commands , and for all that he had heard him say . |
| 21 | Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy . |
| 22 | But independence is indivisible , so Ceauşescu thought , he should not have let Romania become dependent on Western credit any more than he had let it fall under Soviet political control . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was the effect of the enchanted drink , but he suddenly knew that what had made him hesitate before , her social rank , now seemed a ridiculous objection . |
| 24 | and I 've heard him say oh can I go and play with such a boy , he said he likes going to Kirsty , Kirsty and Hannah and Kirsty and Graham he 's quite fond of them too and Adam |
| 25 | I know you 've been seeing my Josephine and I 've heard you brag about it , you cocky little bastard . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she had said , ‘ the Men do n't like it and I 've seen them get quite angry with people who do it . |
| 27 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 28 | And I 've seen it happen on several occasions over the past couple of years , always when there are no TV cameras on him . |
| 29 | And I 've seen you do it in a lot of them . |
| 30 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |