Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 2 | Every day I have to go through some sort of treatment . |
| 3 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 4 | This is probably the most untrue statement I have heard in some time . |
| 5 | I have done for some time . ’ |
| 6 | I HAVE noticed for some time now that the Amnesty International Mandate has not been changed to include ‘ people imprisoned for their sexuality ’ . |
| 7 | The word occurs twice in the present draft and I have explained in some detail why it is not acceptable on either occasion . |
| 8 | All in all , I suppose I have changed to some thing of a nightbird . |
| 9 | Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds , and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the " molecular structure " parallel , I can see great form in " Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons " , " Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky " , " One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows " , " One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person 's Nose " and , apart from when I 'm blackly depressed , Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing , live or dead . |
| 10 | I have lurked like some ghost in this cold , dank church , and now you appear , making a merry jest of it all ! ’ |
| 11 | I have dealt at some length with the arrangements for mandatory support because they have been in the limelight recently and because they are the direct responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 13 | Before you get to see the demo , you have to flick through some text pages containing interesting pieces about the ‘ incident ’ , making you think about what happened . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , you have studied to some effect … |
| 15 | By week 4 , you should be feeling quite well , perhaps better than you have felt for some time and , with any luck , you will be a good deal nearer to your target weight . |
| 16 | Signs that you have gone to some trouble to find out about the firm will be very much in your favour . |
| 17 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 18 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 19 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 20 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 21 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 22 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 23 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 24 | One practice we have followed for some time in mid-week housegroups is to follow up and apply further what has been taught on Sunday . |
| 25 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |
| 26 | We have dealt at some length with these important , if abortive , proposals because they throw a great deal of light on the complexities surrounding the financial control and management of public sector higher education and because they have influenced the subsequent debate concerning the need for some form of central control . |
| 27 | We have dealt at some length with Haycocks I and its aftermath because of the relative importance of full-time teachers to the further education colleges . |
| 28 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 29 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 30 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |