Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here everyone has forgotten the old courtesies . |
| 2 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 3 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 5 | I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more . |
| 6 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 7 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 8 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 9 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 10 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 11 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 12 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 13 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 14 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 15 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 16 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 17 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 18 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 19 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 20 | I therefore associated towns with tin roofs and thatched huts ; in Jibuti , Berbera and Aden I had seen no memorable buildings . |
| 21 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 22 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 23 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 24 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 25 | ( I had dreaded the other meetings with her too , had n't I. Yes I had . ) |
| 26 | Similar to Fitzgerald , I had retreated a few patients months to years after their initial management , but one third of patients still had symptoms of constipation 6.8 ( 2.8 ) years after initial evaluation . |
| 27 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 28 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 29 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 30 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |