Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen .
2 I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do .
3 But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story .
4 morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece .
5 When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’
6 So his got one , I noticed he has two books the other day .
7 But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’
8 When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . "
9 I felt I had good cause .
10 Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me …
11 I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film .
12 As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair .
13 I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend .
14 I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’
15 One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’
16 I knew he had previous convictions .
17 Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks .
18 I saw you had some books on birds . ’
19 Yes , yes , so would I , you know , right in the centre of the action , I thought we had brilliant seats .
20 ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill .
21 And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago
22 Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me .
23 I thought you had powerful friends too , ’ he said to Owen .
24 I thought you had more courage . ’
25 I thought you had more self-control .
26 Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " .
27 I thought I had other books ?
28 I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years .
29 Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females .
30 I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay .
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