Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood-tests are now available to tell whether someone has had German measles in the past , and nobody in their right mind would suggest that such a positive blood test indicated the presence of active German measles long after the patient had recovered from the infection . |
| 2 | I 'd ensured generous media coverage . |
| 3 | Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people . |
| 4 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 5 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 6 | It 's so sincere and done with such love that you know it must be agony for them and your one thought is , ‘ Oh God , how could I have hurt these people like that ? ’ |
| 7 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , within half-a-circuit I had reached 800 ft . |
| 9 | And further , I had no idea I had lost some 10,000ft by this stage . |
| 10 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 11 | I had to bawl those people out for not having due consideration to the effects of other human beings and the problems that they have . |
| 12 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 13 | I had to have that fish . |
| 14 | But when they came back into court on 14 February it was obvious what they were going to say — I had watched these people for a year , I could read them . |
| 15 | Ah I ai n't got no money for you babe , oh I know what I did , I had to count twenty pence worth of co er coppers on me |
| 16 | It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry . |
| 17 | I had borrowed ten quid from Joe — later repaid , and the only interest he demanded was a chaste kiss in front of the BBC in Langham Place . |
| 18 | I 've asked many people I 've met who sell drugs if they take them and they say , ‘ No , no ’ . |
| 19 | Her kindness to me is because I 've expanded those Works . |
| 20 | Oh yeah , that 's what I 'm saying , there 's eight people used to go up I 've seen eight people leaving the Stenness Hotel crofters were around go round gillying for for the Stenness Hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , yes , I think so , and I 've seen other people not confident , go out there and play like it , and not get any runs . ’ |
| 22 | does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not . |
| 23 | I 've seen 30 people aboard . |
| 24 | I 've met these people before ! |
| 25 | I mean I 've I 've chased more people off |
| 26 | I 've chased more people off than the security has . |
| 27 | But I 've heard two people |
| 28 | Yeah , cos I 've heard some people stand up , pronounce that |
| 29 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 30 | After I 've finished this herring . ’ |