Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
2 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
3 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
4 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
5 | No-one has thought it worth their while to eulogize or anathematize schools like Burleigh . |
6 | No-one has set me above this people . |
7 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
8 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
9 | ‘ Something or someone has frightened you off men . |
10 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
11 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
12 | ‘ She looks like someone has punched her in the mouth , ’ said one pal . |
13 | We are not so silent at home as this panegyric of yours has forced us to be here . ’ |
14 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
15 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
16 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
17 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
18 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
19 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
20 | I had never used the word malai in her hearing ; now I 'd applied it to her . |
21 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
22 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
23 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
24 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
25 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
26 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
27 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
28 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
29 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
30 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |