Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well you 've heard the senior prosecutor say that she knows |
| 32 | I still do n't think we 've heard the full story about that business at the off-licence . ’ |
| 33 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 34 | So he 's explained that this is what they 've approached the heavenly Jerusalem |
| 35 | And then you 've got to include St Anton have n't you , now that they 've solved the puking Swede problem . |
| 36 | No you do n't this is it , we 'll just dump everything , I said to Mark we 'll just dump everything in the back room and we 'll stay in the back room till we 've sorted the front room |
| 37 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 38 | Well , you 've picked the wrong target to home in on this time , Mr Burns ! |
| 39 | I 've designed a new yacht which we believe stands an excellent chance of winning the next round-the-world race . |
| 40 | I 'd say offhand , they 've dropped a monstrous spanner in our works . ’ |
| 41 | The game was the first tied match in the World League and Alexander said : ‘ I feel like I 've let the whole team down . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 43 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 44 | I 've come a long way — I may have to go much farther — and I 'm not turning back now . |
| 45 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 46 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 47 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 48 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 49 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 50 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 51 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 53 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 54 | ‘ You 've come a long way to do just that . ’ |
| 55 | I 've come a long way to make a reconciliation with him , and I do n't want interference from some snooty cocktail waitress . |
| 56 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 57 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 58 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 59 | Frontman David Lowery went on to develop Camper 's spiky , satirical side with Cracker , while his colleagues formed the Monks Of Doom , a prolific bunch who 've pursued a less-than-earth-shaking career on a series of garden-shed US indie labels . |
| 60 | Silvikrin is the UK 's best selling hairspray so their formula speaks for itself and now they 've added a new design to their range . |