Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 2 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 3 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 4 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 5 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 6 | We should warn you that next March 12th another police constable will be on foot duty in Convent St. , and should he notice a repetition of your behaviour , we shall have to consider the possibility of taking even more stringent action than we have on this occasion . |
| 7 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |
| 8 | And er once we 've past that hurdle the other two are fairly easy . |
| 9 | That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages . |
| 10 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 11 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 12 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 13 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 15 | The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country . |
| 16 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 18 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 19 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 20 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 21 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 22 | Despite the initial shock of being confronted with a typical Elizabethan letter or manuscript , the collector may be assured that , once he has troubled to master the unfamiliar forms of a number of the letters , their consistency will ensure that he will have no more — and sometimes less — trouble than he has with some of the missives that find their way to his desk or doormat today . |
| 23 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 24 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 25 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 26 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 27 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |
| 28 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 29 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 30 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |