Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
2 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
3 | ‘ I 'd completely forgotten about that . |
4 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
5 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
6 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
7 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
8 | I 'd never thought like that before . |
9 | But I do n't think I 'd better think about that . |
10 | Talking of which , I 'd better look into these two queries before I do anything else . ’ |
11 | Now you can cross Snow White off and all we 've got left to find is witch , oh , there it is , right go from the W , W , W , from the W , right now come down , oh I 'd better help with this one because it 's diagonal , I T C |
12 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
13 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
14 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
15 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
16 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
17 | I had never felt like that in my life , ’ she said at her London home . |
18 | In my ignorance , I had never heard of this extraordinary saga , and I did indeed spend some absorbing time in the church learning something about it . |
19 | ‘ When we started to rehearse , I had never heard of this slim , fair , rather shy person , ’ he recalled . |
20 | Tobin : I had never heard of this guy . |
21 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
22 | I had never dreamed of such a thing . |
23 | ‘ I had never worked at all in my married life and I 'm not a natural businesswoman . |
24 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
25 | Asked if any tribes he admires would allow the kind of eccentricity the English tribe had allowed him , he said ‘ I had never thought of that ’ . |
26 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
27 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
28 | ‘ I had better ring for another cover to be laid . ’ |
29 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
30 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |