Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories ' reduction of public borrowing has been excuse me has seen many public services destroyed or disappeared forever . |
| 2 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 3 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 4 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 5 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 6 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 7 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 8 | Of course , our bullets arrive at the detector one by one and each of them has traversed one or other slit . |
| 9 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 10 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 11 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 12 | you see I 've got two subsids now literally the transfer |
| 13 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 14 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 15 | See I 've got this on tape . |
| 16 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 17 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 18 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah I did n't realize how long ago it was till I 'd eaten that . |
| 20 | The baggy cut of the jacket made me look as it I 'd eaten one roast dinner too many , however the loose fit gave complete freedom of movement — particularly useful for stretching when scrambling or skiing . |
| 21 | I was disappointed ; I 'd eaten better food on board . |
| 22 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 23 | Can you do one of me ? ’ , until I 'd completed twenty five or so in the space of about two months . |
| 24 | By the time we 'd got out of there I 'd received two ‘ love letters ’ from a couple of nine-year-olds and pocketfuls of poems and drawings . |
| 25 | I 'd hoped these two would get on . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I 'd explained that ! ’ |
| 27 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 28 | Of course , Jim had instantly seen what I 'd missed all along with my stupid envy . |
| 29 | But I 'd missed that one . |
| 30 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |