Example sentences of "have [verb] cold " in BNC.

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1 Times have changed and the world has grown colder and nastier .
2 The duvet symbolizes the whole wretchedness of leaving , so I slump at the table , pulling a long face and blowing ripples in the surface of my coffee which has grown cold anyway .
3 Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife .
4 There the trail has gone cold for the moment .
5 ‘ The trail has gone cold .
6 And it has gone cold .
7 Then one of the kids yells that the tap has run cold , and they turn it off and bathroom and shuts the door , and the kids shriek in the water and I drift slowly back to our bedroom where it 's quiet and drab .
8 At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out .
9 It would have to last cold for most of the week , with a bit of bacon in between .
10 In my view , despite the passage of time , the evidence is not likely to have run cold .
11 The trail appears to have gone cold and it would be difficult now to resurrect it successfully , but the incomplete notes are available as received if anyone would like to look at them .
12 He had caught cold , or more likely , suffered from an allergy , Trent thought as he remarked the inflamed eyelids that shuttered the eyes and a nose drip that the thin man dipped into a linen handkerchief every half-a-minute — dip , dip , like a skinny waterbird feeding along the tideline .
13 A week earlier Matthew had defied cold , windy conditions to win the Cleveland County Schools title in 10 mins 29.3 secs .
14 Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end .
15 It had turned cold now , but the air remained still .
16 But though he resumed his speech as though the interruption had never happened , his gaze , holding hers for a moment longer , had turned cold and cynical .
17 She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely …
18 When I tell you I 've got cold feet .
19 Instead , we 've got cold feet ! ’
20 If you 've got cold feet at night can you go to sleep ?
21 You 've got cold feet !
22 Oh I 've got cold bits on me cold bits .
23 When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie .
24 Time had stopped and the house had become cold .
25 His face had become cold and hard , like a face that could not smile and never had .
26 I 've gone cold again !
27 I 've gone cold !
28 Suddenly I was aware that my decadent bath had gone cold and the church bells were clanging the faithful to evensong .
29 Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago .
30 His table was set out with batches of proof sheets clipped together , the ashtray was full of stubs , and there was a cup half full of coffee which looked as though it had gone cold hours before .
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