Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 2 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
| 3 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 4 | Either that , or I 've got a secret penchant for women who attack me with briefcases and then do their best to alienate half my work-force . ’ |
| 5 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 6 | Drew had gone with her to the hospital , where she had undergone a full medical check . |
| 7 | And the question to me is that , where you have got a parliamentary system and where essentially you 're dealing with the backbenchers of the … government in power , can you deliver them ? |
| 8 | Then patch the surface with the special filler provided ( one-part types are easier to use than the two-part systems , where you have to mix a special catalyst with the filler paste ) . |
| 9 | You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business . |
| 10 | Or you 've done a tiny bit and you need something that 's not |
| 11 | Yeah , if it , if it 's an illness , not a simple accident , an accident is probably , or you 've got a rough idea as to how long you gon na be off for . |
| 12 | A preliminary clipping usually takes place during the course of the knotting , when the weaver cuts the pile yarn to an approximate length after he or she has completed a few rows , but the final clipping is a highly skilled job , which , if badly done , can ruin months of work . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Commitment to the community continued through our support of the performing arts , most recently through involvement with the Royal National Theatre in the UK , where we have sponsored a European Tour and a number of other initiatives . |
| 15 | The hardest task for the lads was swamp skiing , a severe test of cooperative behaviour where they had to navigate a 50 metre course barred by three electrified barriers on two 10 foot planks of wood . |
| 16 | When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby . |
| 17 | In 1946 , he played in Montreal and in the following year , he transferred to the Brooklyn Dodgers , where he had to weather a strong protest by the rest of the team before making his debut . |
| 18 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 19 | Where he had felt a little pang — outside , horse-held , self-wrapt — now , delighted by the truculence of her conversation , he was ravenous . |
| 20 | But , always kind : " Well , Robert , dear fellow , " she crooned when he came back from the bar ( where he had bought a third bottle of champagne ) . |
| 21 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 22 | He found Joseph in the Hungerford area , where he had rented a small farm . |
| 23 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 24 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 25 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 26 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 27 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes ! |
| 29 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 30 | Or ‘ I had a binge last night and I 've no excuse , except that I 've got a terrible hangover this morning and I 'll try again tomorrow . ’ |