Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 2 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 3 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 4 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 5 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 6 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 7 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 8 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 9 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 11 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 12 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 13 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 14 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 15 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 16 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 17 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 18 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 19 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 20 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 21 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 22 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 23 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 24 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 25 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 26 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 27 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 28 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |