Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 2 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 4 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 11 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 12 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 13 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had heard a few comments , such as : ‘ Oh ! |
| 16 | ‘ I had discovered a few things about him that were very … hurtful . |
| 17 | We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins . |
| 18 | On Boxing Day I had accepted a few spoons of gravy , but only after considerable coaxing from Mick , having refused it twice already . |
| 19 | I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me . |
| 20 | Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back . |
| 21 | I believe I had walked a little way along the roadside , peering through the foliage hoping to get a better view , when I heard a voice behind me . |
| 22 | I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning , before the trial began . |
| 23 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 24 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 25 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 26 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 27 | I had known a few evenings here when it was chilly and wet — the nights were generally cold — but now it was pleasant ; warm as a good summer evening in Scotland . |
| 28 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 29 | That was all I needed … just when I had found a little peace at last . |
| 30 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |