Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye .
2 I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal .
3 And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage .
4 So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option .
5 " Where I 've got a job .
6 She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ .
7 One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) .
8 Drew had gone with her to the hospital , where she had undergone a full medical check .
9 Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head .
10 On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation .
11 Well , it would depend but I mean there are various of nuisance from noise in the flats , or anywhere where you 've got a lot of people put together all living in a s fairly small area .
12 Where you 've got a division in them .
13 Perhaps you 're exhausted where you 've had a gear problem .
14 And the question to me is that , where you have got a parliamentary system and where essentially you 're dealing with the backbenchers of the … government in power , can you deliver them ?
15 Where you have got a function because you can manipulate them so much , and turn them around , and I thought , there must be points along functions , where it is , it goes against the rules ,
16 You dive down a side street where you have spied a festoon of pretty cotton squares , and there , under gaudy painted colonnades , lilac and orange , cinnamon and lemon and rose , in patterns more typical of Marseille or the Levant than of Cavaillon , the retail market stalls are already doing business .
17 ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said .
18 There has been at least one occasion where we 've caught a cold because this was not done .
19 This is the first where we 've got a lot of problems with access .
20 In these circumstances where we have referred a sale opportunity to the purchaser , the terms and conditions of our introductory fee are set out in sections 1103.1 and 1108.1 .
21 He expresses scepticism about Frankfurt 's boast of being able to fill their stadium for every session : ‘ I do n't think they will get 9,000 every day , but I would have achieved that here , where we have developed an audience for the game .
22 References to our name will be appropriate only where we have provided a report for publication in a public document or circular , or ( as provided for in the engagement letter ) have otherwise consented to the ‘ form and context ’ in which our name is to appear .
23 Commitment to the community continued through our support of the performing arts , most recently through involvement with the Royal National Theatre in the UK , where we have sponsored a European Tour and a number of other initiatives .
24 Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors .
25 And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it .
26 A Crown lawyer said that Hall had gone to the Co Galway resort of Salthill with a group of friends where they had rented a house for a week last July .
27 Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 .
28 At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names .
29 He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood .
30 Where he had felt a little pang — outside , horse-held , self-wrapt — now , delighted by the truculence of her conversation , he was ravenous .
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