Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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1 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
2 | No well er I , I expect you 've caught up a bit now have n't you ? |
3 | ‘ We know we have taken on a lifetime 's commitment but I love this boy . |
4 | I believe I have calmed down a bit but there are still times when I will get booked . ’ |
5 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |
6 | I think I 've worked out a way of getting him away . |
7 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
8 | Why do we have to bring in a cut-throat operator like Guy Sterne ? ’ |
9 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
10 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
11 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |