Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 32 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 33 | Oh you 've been asked after that . |
| 34 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 35 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 36 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 37 | Besides , she had been caught like that by a man once before . |
| 38 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 39 | She had thought her daughter was pure and good , and she had been gratified by that . |
| 40 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 41 | She 's been hiding behind that chair and |
| 42 | You know , she 's been invited to that wedding in Africa ? |
| 43 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 44 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 45 | Oh Jane , yeah well she 's been , she 's been suffering with that back a long , long time |
| 46 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 47 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 48 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 49 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 50 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 51 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 52 | Think of your sister ; would you want her to have been forced into that way of life ? ’ |
| 53 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 54 | Happily my inspector friend was at hand , He opened the Chief Constable 's hospitality cupboard , I had a dram and was told that they had been tipped off that afternoon about some Scot that would run some sheep through the Lion . |
| 55 | Get as much information as to why they have been put on that list . |
| 56 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 57 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 58 | It has been indicated above that Scottish law developed slightly differently from English law . |
| 59 | It has been noted above that while the accepted Turkish tradition has rejected the Muftilik of Molla Yegan and has passed straight from the Muftilik of Molla Fenari to that of Fahreddin Acemi , there is evidence , part of which is the source chiefly used in formulating the Turkish tradition , to show that Molla Yegan did succeed Molla Fenari in his office of Mufti . |
| 60 | ( d ) a delivery after transfer , where the requested item proves to be already on the reserve shelf of another reader , but can be supplied after it has been transferred from that reader to the more recent applicant . |