Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has denied he is on the verge of quitting — ‘ Im suprised if people thought I am the sort who takes my bat and ball home if I do nt get my way ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd assumed it was in the mortuary . |
| 3 | Why had n't she simply walked out of the theatre as soon as she 'd discovered he was in the cast ? |
| 4 | But none of the boys who played with him at St Mark 's Roman Catholic Primary School in Shettleston could ever have guessed they were in the company of a very special talent . |
| 5 | That the kakar had seen the tigress was quite evident , and the only place where she could have seen her was on the track . |
| 6 | I would n't have thought it 's in the real realms of practical politics to persuade the German government or indeed any other government to renege on a contract which has been signed . |
| 7 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 8 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have thought it was beyond the realms of possibility . ’ |
| 10 | I had never done anything like that in my life , but I found that having to do it was in the end very exciting because you have to rely on the Lord and he supplies help in unforgettable ways . |
| 11 | He must have known we were in the doorway . |
| 12 | They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference . |
| 13 | The passport that the Colonel had given him was in the inside pocket of his anorak . |
| 14 | you know , we we 're obliged to put that little bit in you know , there 's year seven , year eight , year ten the there wo n't be a tick in there and so the the these levels will be whatever you 've decided they are in the way that you asses but at the end of the key stage this report will go out in Au i in September now following SATS . |
| 15 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 16 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 17 | The man who had greeted her was on the deck of his boat cleaning something . |
| 18 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 19 | If he had known I was on the stage , he 'd have murdered me . |
| 20 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 21 | The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl . |