Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 2 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 3 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 4 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
| 5 | I had to park at The Three Pigeons I could n't get in ! |
| 6 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 7 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 8 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 10 | I have to look at an intelligent face . |
| 11 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 12 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 13 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 14 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 15 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 16 | got ta got ta royal visit coming up he said you 've worked at the Scottish Office do you know anything about them and I said yes tell the Scottish Office they 'll do all the a Royal navy one I 've got to do it I said fine when is it ? |
| 17 | ‘ You 've come at a gay bad time . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 19 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 20 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 21 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 22 | She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children . |
| 23 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 24 | No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought . |
| 25 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 26 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 27 | Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course . |
| 28 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 29 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 30 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |