Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
2 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
3 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
4 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
5 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
6 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
7 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
8 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
9 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
10 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
11 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
12 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
13 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
14 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
15 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
16 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
17 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
18 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
19 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
20 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
21 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
22 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
23 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
24 | When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman . |
25 | Within six months , I 'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law . |
26 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |
27 | I 'd planned a liquid dinner for myself — ’ |
28 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
29 | I 'd bought a special bottle of wine . |
30 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |