Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up . |
| 2 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 3 | Some of us remember the times of fixed exchange rates under the Bretton Woods system when we used to hear in the House details of public expenditure cuts , of how we had to let go a great deal of our reserves , and of high interest rates — all at once . |
| 4 | All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's why I 've got to see a man about a job . ’ |
| 6 | We 're going to imagine now then that you are in a situation where you 've got to solve a problem . |
| 7 | The defendants had previously encountered Mr. Perot in 1983 when they had sought to negotiate a letting of Caliban to Mr. Perot but the negotiations had broken down . |
| 8 | They 've evidently looked you can see where they 've scratched to get a screwdriver through there to try and get the sound the sound out . |
| 9 | Then he remembered the long , toilsome months when he had worked to perfect a style of writing , giving hours to his literature and language assignments , more hours to dissecting other people 's novels . |
| 10 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 11 | Grunte had run into him on the forecourt of one of his garages where he had come to buy a second-hand Sierra . |
| 12 | I have used pragmatic principles derived from Grice ( 1975 ) already , but the maxims of quality and quantity are of immediate concern to us here because , in scene eleven , Anderson fails to provide the chairman with an adequate explanation for why he has chosen to give a new paper . |