Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
2 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
3 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
4 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
5 | I was glad to do this , for I had kept in close touch with his work and took a deep interest in it . |
6 | This was the first time in my life that I had lived in deep country , without easy access to shops , transport and people I knew . |
7 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
8 | Dear friends , I had hoped in due course |
9 | The lack of space , the cold , the absence of hot water — all these contingencies I negotiated with the skills I had acquired in domestic science ( my best subject ) and as a Girl Guide . |
10 | I had driven in tumescent haste to our tryst at Appleby horse fair . |
11 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
12 | ‘ They scrummed well and it was as hard a match as I 've played in this season . |
13 | I would n't discuss what we would do , but the commanders are quite clear what their instructions are , er they 've acted extremely efficiently today , and er obviously I 've kept in close touch with the incident while it was happening , er I 'm very pleased with the way in which it 's been handled , and in fact both incidents . |
14 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
15 | I 've lived in this area for 25 years . |
16 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
17 | I 've seen in real life , ! |
18 | But Davies insists : ‘ I 'm very encouraged by what I 've seen in Welsh club rugby this season . |
19 | ‘ I 've killed in cold blood . |
20 | I 've come in this theatre in nineteen seventy five . |
21 | I 've tried in this book to demonstrate the importance for people in television to ignore the more glamorous and artificial aspects of the job , and to keep their feet firmly on the ground . |
22 | And I think , all those windows I 've got in that kitchen . |
23 | They said a , a normal person living on their own is only entitled to thirty nine pound sixty a week and that 's what I 've got in that book , but I do n't think they realise that I I 'm on me own and I 've got a gas , electricity and everything else to pay out of that |
24 | All of the documents and reports to which I have referred in this chapter serve to throw light upon the contemporary primary school and to provide material upon which to speculate about future developments . |
25 | What matters is that , regardless of their manufacturers , the devices themselves are enemies of each other in the special sense I have defined in this chapter . |
26 | It is likely , as I have said in another place , that he preferred in general the company of women to men . |
27 | But on the basis of what I have said in this chapter concerning the formation and power of governments , this comforting view is not plausible . |
28 | I have argued in this chapter that conventional references to such a separation during the seventeenth century are defective in two respects . |
29 | He said : ‘ I went to Africa to teach but I was re-routed into education administration and I have stayed in that profession ever since . |
30 | As I have written in another context ( Dreamers , 1984 ) , ‘ Humanity is going to look pretty silly if it turns out that dreams do n't mean anything at all . ’ |