Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood-tests are now available to tell whether someone has had German measles in the past , and nobody in their right mind would suggest that such a positive blood test indicated the presence of active German measles long after the patient had recovered from the infection . |
| 2 | If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database . |
| 3 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 4 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 5 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 6 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 7 | Do I have to condition new floorboards before laying them ? |
| 8 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 9 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 10 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 11 | I had reached optimum trust in my balance and my feet . |
| 12 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 13 | I had to carry hot water for washing to every room . ’ |
| 14 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 15 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 16 | I had heard awful tales of Spanish prisons . |
| 17 | I had heard good reports of the Tesoro Silver Sabre Plus ( especially when fitted with a large coil ) . |
| 18 | I had to repeat whole sections of my ‘ ritual register ’ , to stop myself from eidetiking , to stop myself from spoiling her image . |
| 19 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 20 | I had read similar claims for ‘ the Peruvian sensibility ’ of the poet Cesar Vallejo on the back of an edition of his first collection , Los Heraldos Negros . |
| 21 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 23 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I had considered floral arrangement as a career . |
| 25 | I had to apply antiseptic cream on a couple of occasions when this pulling and rubbing with her beak had actually caused some bleeding . |
| 26 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 27 | I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate . |
| 28 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 29 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 30 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |