Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately . |
| 2 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 3 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 4 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 5 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 6 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 7 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton . |
| 8 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 9 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 10 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 12 | Representing Dagenham , in east London , Mr Gould is seen by some colleagues as well-placed to assess how Labour can broaden its appeal to the communities that have rejected it at four general elections in a row . |
| 13 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 14 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 15 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 16 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 17 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 18 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 19 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |