Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 4 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 5 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 6 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 7 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 10 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 11 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 12 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 14 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 15 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 16 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 18 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 19 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 20 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 21 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 22 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 23 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 24 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 25 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 26 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 27 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 28 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 29 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 30 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |