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Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] 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	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 .
6	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 .
7	‘ 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 .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle .
12	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 ?
13	‘ You 've come at a gay bad time .
14	‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook .
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	She tried to hide her feelings by concentrating , as she had done at the Red House , on the children .
19	She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment .
20	No , she had not wanted that , not Papa 's shrewd eyes on her ; she had shivered at the very thought .
21	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 .
22	She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had .
23	Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course .
24	She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it .
25	How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass .
26	A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
27	You have come at the wrong time .
28	We 'd started at the same time .
29	We 've looked at the correct placing of a tank , at filtration and other life-support systems for tropical fish , and at the fish themselves .
30	The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .