Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie . |
2 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
3 | And he has given us this command : Whoever loves God must also love his brother ( 1 John 4:18–21 ) . |
4 | Mr Major said Mr Patten had been ‘ the architect of of the campaign that has won us this victory … |
5 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
6 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
7 | New industrializing areas attracted migrants from the south to the north ( and to South Wales ) the reverse of ‘ drift to the south ’ which has preoccupied us this century . |
8 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
9 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
10 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
11 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
12 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
13 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
14 | ‘ We believe that we might have had it this year were it not for the election . ’ |
15 | Should I have grabbed her this morning ? |
16 | ‘ A thought of that two months back might have spared you this grief now . |
17 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
18 | ‘ I seem to recall having asked you this question before . |
19 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
20 | He gave Tottenham Hotspur the title , I think , of the greatest club side ever in erm , British football , and they won erm , the double as everyone knows , in nineteen sixty one , the first English team to have won it this century . |
21 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
22 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
23 | you 've given us this information . |
24 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
25 | So know that , if you now refer back to the , the book that I 've given you this morning and if you turn to where it says okay it says stop here do not read on |
26 | I 've stopped it this time but it will come out somewhere else . |
27 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
28 | She saw her work laid out there in the garden , all the muscled cold wet harshness of it ; all the labour and the ingrained resistance to working , and she thanked her mother , who had given her this thing . |
29 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
30 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |