Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This has set me back a few weeks , that 's all .
2 I 'd seen him around a few times .
3 Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it !
4 Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’
5 ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way .
6 I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher .
7 Had Liverpool been playing Arsenal next Wednesday would Dalglish have ruled him out a full five days before the game ?
8 You must have touched her up the wrong way .
9 You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at
10 HER REPLY on August 21 appears to have tipped him over a political brink .
11 We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit .
12 and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best .
13 They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it .
14 I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche .
15 And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door
16 When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail .
17 Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall .
18 The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate .
19 The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’
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