Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 2 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 3 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 4 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 5 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 6 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 7 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 8 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 9 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 10 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 11 | The two-layered cameo of Augustus which has ended up in the British Museum bears tangible evidence of regard , even of awe , in the delicate circlet of gems , including a miniature cameo , affixed to it while in the hands of a medieval owner ( fig. 26 ) . |
| 12 | An encouraging aspect of the Rossini celebration is the wider view of his art which has opened up in the past quarter of a century . |
| 13 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 14 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 15 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 16 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 17 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 18 | Finally , guberniia executive committees were charged with the resurrection of village reading-rooms , most of which had gone under in the changed economic conditions of NEP . |
| 19 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 20 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 21 | Rather we are looking at those beliefs , supported by significant power bases within each bloc , which have won out in the political process in the past seventy years and still appear to be doing so , in some cases with much decreased vitality . |
| 22 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
| 23 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 24 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 25 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 26 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 27 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 28 | And she 'd passed out in the phone box . |
| 29 | But prior to that … all the famous disappearances you 've read about in the Sunday tabloids are all part of the same phenomenon . |
| 30 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |