Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our currency has dropped in value so drastically in recent years , the demand should already have revealed itself . |
| 2 | An incident more affecting adult death education worth mentioning has come to light more recently . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I 'd changed to diesel long ago . |
| 4 | It seemed impossible that she could have fallen in love so swiftly and completely , especially when she 'd managed to remain heart-whole quite effortlessly all this time . |
| 5 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 6 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 7 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 8 | I think , if I had n't been there , she 'd have gone to sleep right away . |
| 9 | If a home help had been put in he would probably have gone down hill very fast . |
| 10 | The food filled a hole and that was as much as anyone could say for it , or maybe anything would have tasted like sawdust right then . |
| 11 | He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things . |
| 12 | Thirty-five years later they had met again and , despite Felicity 's husband and a brood of occasionally unsatisfactory children , they had fallen in love once more . |
| 13 | ‘ The nearest I 've come to celebrity so far is sharing canapés with Samantha Fox on the Jonathan Ross show . |
| 14 | The man had come to life very considerably in discussing his job and a formidable personality was emerging . |
| 15 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 16 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 17 | ‘ Only when I want to make love to you , and that is n't what you 've got in mind right now , is it ? ’ |
| 18 | She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp . |
| 19 | We 've remained in contact ever since . |
| 20 | I 've gone off sex altogether now , but my boyfriend has n't . |
| 21 | In fact Trieste , which under the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been the main port of Middle Europe , had diminished in importance as far as Italy was concerned : Genoa had effectively taken its place . |
| 22 | She had pleaded for help as eloquently as she could . |
| 23 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 24 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 25 | Either he had gone to ground very effectively and was in hiding , or — and this was a rumour that spread increasingly amongst the cast — he had killed himself . |
| 26 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 27 | The staff who had been in the kitchen when Zambia had landed in the packing cases had gone off duty soon afterwards . |
| 28 | Twenty of the men who had fought with Dulé that early morning died in the water , maimed by the cannonshot ; eleven drowned in the confusion of fire and shipwreck in the attack on the Rebecca . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’ |
| 30 | Their plans have come to fruition rather sooner and more dramatically than expected . |