Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this long , cold day and night I have managed by a great , indeed gargantuan , effort to write seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-one words . |
| 2 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 3 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 4 | a certain part of I beg your pardon sorry I 'm getting my definitions wrong may be looking after something which the erm corporate locations are solely within the south but it 's handled by an corporate account . |
| 5 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 6 | It 's surrounded by a large volume of air is n't it ? |