Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably the most untrue statement I have heard in some time . |
| 2 | The word occurs twice in the present draft and I have explained in some detail why it is not acceptable on either occasion . |
| 3 | Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner . |
| 4 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 5 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that before or after we 've stopped in some back alley somewhere ? ’ |
| 7 | The five hundred thousand shortfall in community Chair , I think we 've covered in some detail on the earlier paper , so there are other additions there of some nine hundred thousand . |
| 8 | But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 10 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 11 | He recently ate a piece of cheese when his hands had just touched his shoes — and I later found out he had stood in some dog dirt . |
| 12 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 13 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
| 14 | And next door to him , number five they 're an elderly couple erm and they 've got one of their sons living there at erm he 's disabled in some way but I 'm not quite sure how . |