Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any amending Treaty of the kind I have described will without doubt demand great skill on the part of the British negotiators ; it should be remembered , however , that both the EEC 's trade realities and European public opinion are on their side . |
| 2 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 3 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I 'd had newspapers , but I was n't able to feel inside the atmosphere outside . |
| 5 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 6 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 7 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 8 | Oh there is ca oh of course I have got cakes in the . |
| 9 | But I had to be back before dark still , and in the fairly late afternoon I had to change buses at Hyde Park Corner . |
| 10 | At Sussex University I had harboured hopes of getting very personal with Sally Drayton . |
| 11 | By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 . |
| 12 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 13 | ‘ I sold my house for £78,000 but then the building society wanted a mundic test and as a result I had to knock £11,000 off . |
| 14 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 15 | You mean every time I have that car I have to put petrol in . |
| 16 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 17 | We had arrived in Uulaa 's system a few moments before , and as we drifted down to planetary speed I 'd contacted Frejji on the comm . |
| 18 | Mummy I 've seen daddy in there ! |
| 19 | It is this impasse which has led Robert Paul Wolff , for one , to conclude that the only kind of society in which freedom , or moral autonomy , of every individual is preserved is , in fact , one without government , an anarchist society . |
| 20 | SIR Ron Brierley yesterday reassured shareholders in GPG , the investment vehicle where he is chairman , that ‘ we are doing everything in our power ’ to solve the impasse which has frozen London trading in the shares for 15 months . |
| 21 | Saigon 's main boulevard , the Rue Catinat , linked the docks and the cathedral , symbols of the twin goals of commerce and religion which had led France to colonize the land , and in its fashionable sidewalk cafe 's they saw deferential Annamese waiters in black turbans and linen gowns darting among the marble-topped tables , serving aperitifs to languid groups of their European colonizers . |
| 22 | It is this thinking which has created Title VI of the Maastricht Treaty as the beginning of a process by which responsibility for justice and home affairs is transferred from the jurisdiction of the Member States to that of the European Union . |
| 23 | Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments . |
| 24 | Matta had been accused of overseeing a ring which had distributed cocaine worth $72,000,000 in Los Angeles , and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) officials claimed that he controlled a drug-trafficking empire worth up to $2,000 million . |
| 25 | During the course of the news conference both Assad and Mubarak said that they opposed any renewed military action against Iraq ; Syria and Egypt had both committed ground forces to the US-led coalition which had ousted Iraq from Kuwait in February 1991 . |
| 26 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 27 | The Nationale Volkspartij ( NVP — National People 's Party , also known as the Partido Nashonal di Pueblo , Maria Liberia Peters l. ) , leads a centre-right coalition which has held office since 1988 . |
| 28 | Beyond the olive trees , beneath the west wall , was the monastery spring , the same spring which had sustained Paul . |
| 29 | A short ( eleven pages of text ) and inexpensive ( 1s. 3d. ) , but resoundingly entitled , White Paper , The War Against Crime in England and Wales 1959–64 , was published in April 1964 in the dying days of the Conservative Administration which had taken office in 1959 . |
| 30 | Secondly , erm think of the world of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ , it must be so , or even more so in France perhaps , erm there 's this huge French administration which has done things in much the same way through the decades and I suppose wo n't easily be changed from doing them . |