Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless a player is totally without imagination , then he can not fail to be aware of what has gone before as he makes his pilgrimage round Augusta . |
| 2 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 3 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 4 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 5 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 6 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 7 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |
| 8 | The exiles from Ecuador — more accustomed to jungle and soggy heat — had gasped unashamedly as we rounded the bend above the cliffs , and they remained quite mute , awestruck , as we circled down into town and parked outside the Hotel Eberhardt for a dish of the king crab , centolla , and a mug of beer . |
| 9 | One that had gone even as he groped for it . |
| 10 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 11 | what had happened here as I presumed the telephone lines were down . |
| 12 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 13 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 14 | The muscles in his face had flexed tight as he spoke and his breathing had become uneven . |
| 15 | The skies had darkened ominously as she set out on her journey to the coast , but she was not unduly concerned about the dismal weather . |
| 16 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 17 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 18 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |