Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 2 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 3 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 4 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 5 | If firm 2 reneges on punishment , then in the following period firm 1 must punish firm 2 for not having punished it in the previous period , and so on . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 7 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 8 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 10 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 11 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 13 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 14 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 15 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 16 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't steal your money , you stupid bitch , you must have put it in the wrong apron . ’ |
| 18 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 19 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 20 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 21 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 22 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 23 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 24 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 25 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 26 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 27 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 28 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 29 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 30 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |