Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect Alice has explained to you about that , ’ he mumbled . |
| 2 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 4 | Yes , one , one thing has occurred to me about this in trying to deal with forms , it seems to me that trying to put a date on a day on it , is absolutely hopeless . |
| 5 | It is an a matter where Miss has spoken to me about this particular case and it |
| 6 | I remember a story from my student days which has stuck with me in this way ever since . |
| 7 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 8 | Such organizations have many other characteristics which anybody who has worked in them for any length of time will recognize . |
| 9 | He is from Madrid , and although he has lived among us for many years now , he still thinks like a madrileño sometimes . ’ |
| 10 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 11 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 12 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 14 | I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that . |
| 15 | It was a poor excuse … but I would have jumped at anything by that time . |
| 16 | It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case . |
| 17 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 18 | Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all . |
| 19 | I do n't know what we 'd have done without her in those dark years . |
| 20 | I mean , we have a special relationship , and I was hoping that he would have talked with you about that . |
| 21 | They probably talked to him already , they 'd have talked to everybody in that block , just asking if they saw or heard anything . |
| 22 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 23 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 24 | However I must have played with it for that tool set led to Dad 's most embarrassing moment — something which he never ever let me forget . |
| 25 | In fact , we know that the radiation must have traveled to us across most of the observable universe , and since it appears to be the same in different directions , the universe must also be the same in every direction , if only on a large scale . |
| 26 | His gift of tears in prayer would have counted for nothing without this . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 28 | I 'd like to know more about it because having gone through it without any eventuality I 'd quite like to know what I missed ! |
| 29 | Imagine what those bitches might put on the end of that piston rod in place of a dildo , what agonising liquid they could have squirted into you by that pressure pump . |
| 30 | Austen had certainly emerged as leader , for nobody could have stood against him with any prospect of success , and it was appropriate that his succession should be marked by Pretyman , who was a respected backbencher of long service and represented the inarticulate centre of the party . |