Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 5 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 6 | It there are two exceptions , that I mentioned , we must give prior consideration in any vacancy that we have for a registered disabled applicant . |
| 7 | We make-believe that the dried skull is all that we have from a modern animal , use a plaster cast to estimate how big its brain was from the skull alone , and then check with the real brain to see how accurate our estimate was . |
| 8 | Moreover , Stevenson 's theory , and the attitudinism sketched above , are at their most convincing in their treatment of value charged descriptive words , among which indeed even such words as ‘ good ’ can be counted when we are concerned with the meaning that they have in a homogeneous society . |