Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 2 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
| 3 | Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’ |
| 4 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 5 | I 've seen it flood before but never as bad as that |
| 6 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 7 | I 've seen it happen to a lot of good MDs that got fired . |
| 8 | I 've seen it happen to new people coming in as well . |
| 9 | And I 've seen it happen on several occasions over the past couple of years , always when there are no TV cameras on him . |
| 10 | I 've seen it happen . ’ |
| 11 | Truly ungrammatical sentences are regarded as not resulting from any regular grammatical process ( e.g. ‘ I 've seen it happen is two girls fight . ’ ) . |
| 12 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 13 | Er well it er it was normal because it was the only time I , I 've heard it happen in Street anyway but there were , there was kids being sent away all the time to borstal and er for doing wrong things . |
| 14 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 15 | It is n't hot I 've let it cool down . |
| 16 | ‘ But I have to let it bother me . |
| 17 | I have seen it grow from the seed , until now it dominates his thinking . |
| 18 | I have seen it happen , for instance , to people at retirement . |
| 19 | Sometimes it can : I have seen it happen , and it is usually with the better commercials . |
| 20 | ‘ I have seen it come down from the sky with a noise like thunder , and I have seen within it the bodies of those who were Too Late ! ’ |
| 21 | This is a very simple philosophy but , in my experience , I have seen it work time and time again . |
| 22 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 23 | At last he said , ‘ You 've made it look like a rather nasty plot to achieve my own ends . ’ |
| 24 | You 've let it go . |
| 25 | ABBERLEY : You 've let it happen . |
| 26 | There 's nothing that drastically bad in behaving that way , but you 've let it become a habit , one that you ca n't break out of very easily . |
| 27 | She had seen it happen to others many a time . |
| 28 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 29 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 30 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |