Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] [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 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
3 | ‘ Of course I 'd had newspapers , but I was n't able to feel inside the atmosphere outside . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 |
6 | Oh there is ca oh of course I have got cakes in the . |
7 | At Sussex University I had harboured hopes of getting very personal with Sally Drayton . |
8 | By sheer luck I had given Reuters their biggest news scoop since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Mummy I 've seen daddy in there ! |
14 | Er I just wondered what satura saturation you 've had golf clubs |
15 | But on the other side you 've got Dovedale and Manifold |
16 | My conscience over that headache of an interview you 'd promised Cara — and me making believe I was my sister — was really getting to me . ’ |
17 | Add the X to each side , take the thirty off each side we 've got X equals four . |
18 | In this chapter we have examined approaches to planning and decision making . |
19 | In this chapter we have applied graph search theory to the performance of four speech systems . |
20 | In this chapter we have discussed aspects of competition policy , the process through which governments seek to prevent large private firms from abusing their potential monopoly power . |
21 | Now , in the past , so far , this term we 've covered areas such as the bus role play , which I suspect you remember the shop role play of which I 'm sure you remember . |
22 | In the present study we have examined extracts prepared from 44 colorectal tumours , and from ‘ normal ’ mucosa , with a range of antibodies which together allow us to identify progastrin , its C-terminal fragment produced by tryptic cleavage , a biosynthetic intermediate ( glycine extended gastrin ) , as well as biologically active ( amidated ) gastrins ( Fig 1 ) . |
23 | In this study we have taken advantage of using a complete modification system , the X.laevis oocyte , being aware of the fact that yeast tRNA in this heterologous system will get a modification pattern that reflects the properties of the X.laevis modification enzymes . |
24 | In this study we have used immunohistochemistry to determine the distribution and density of TNF α containing cells , in the mucosa and submucosa of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease . |
25 | In this study we have induced hepatocyte DNA snythesis in the intact liver with an infusion of TAGH , and shown similar changes in the EGF receptor to those occurring after partial resection . |
26 | In the English Department they have done work in which they have interviewed parents . |
27 | Laker 's liquidators had taken the opportunity under American law to pursue an anti-trust suit , seeking up to £1 billion in damages against British Airways and others , claiming that through ‘ predatory ’ fare-cutting they had driven Laker out of business . |
28 | Others could not become citizens " until by their labour and industry they have acquired land " . |
29 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
30 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |