Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 2 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 3 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 4 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 5 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
| 6 | Where I 've just dug . |
| 7 | Where I 've just dug there . |
| 8 | ( Apart from the last 2 bleak and miserable years , where I 've only managed to get to about 10 games because of my new secret life as a student . ) |
| 9 | where I 've never been , and , on the wall , |
| 10 | Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how . |
| 11 | They are very high quality soft pastels , with a wonderfully creamy texture which varies not at all from colour to colour , unlike other pastel ranges I have bought , where I have sometimes found that the darkest colours have been brittle and irritatingly scratchy to use . |
| 12 | Some , such as jazz guitarist Larry Coryell 's 1971 album Barefoot Boy , on the defunct Flying Dutchman label , probably sold around six copies on vinyl ( mainly thanks to side one , where someone had irresponsibly convinced Coryell he could be the new Jimi Hendrix ) ; a CD re-issue is out of the question . |
| 13 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 14 | Inside it was cool and restful , with honey-coloured stone tiles covering a huge entrance hall , where she 'd promptly dropped her suitcase and flight-bag and made a dive for the kitchen and the fridge to quench her raging thirst . |
| 15 | She looked towards the bag , where she 'd lovingly wrapped the two priceless items , believing them to be precious — but only because they 'd belonged to her beloved father . |
| 16 | Caught in Berlin at the outbreak of war she was able to reach London , where she had already formed her own ballet company under Dandré 's management . |
| 17 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 18 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 19 | She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it . |
| 20 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 21 | Alix drove on to the staff car park , as Technicolor Viennese figures in ball gowns , wearing ruby pendants , flowered corsages , turned in her mind , in a scene that derived less from Vienna ( where she had never been ) than from Tolstoy 's descriptions of balls in War and Peace . |
| 22 | He led her into his study where she had never yet been . |
| 23 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 24 | A world of dizzying sensation where she had never been before ? |
| 25 | She will be accompanied on the year-long exercise by colleagues from Bristol University , where she has just completed her final examination for a zoology degree . |
| 26 | She has won her spurs in her role as Minister of Health , where she has frequently had to appear in place of her beleaguered former boss , William Waldegrave . |
| 27 | I understood there was talk of taking up where you 'd both left off , ’ she reminded him . |
| 28 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 29 | Group A will be using the Stanley Library which is directly opposite where you 've just had coffee , and Group C will be using the Reception Room which is back towards the Porter 's Lodge on the right hand side . |
| 30 | Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability . |