Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 2 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 3 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 4 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 5 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 6 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 7 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 8 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 9 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 10 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 11 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
| 12 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 13 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 14 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 15 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 16 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 17 | And she 'd passed out in the phone box . |
| 18 | But prior to that … all the famous disappearances you 've read about in the Sunday tabloids are all part of the same phenomenon . |
| 19 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 20 | She had stood out in the crowd even amongst the beautiful beach children of San Francisco . |
| 21 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 22 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 23 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 24 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 25 | And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited . |
| 26 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 27 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 28 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 29 | You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus . |
| 30 | Gon na have to start changing up the hundreds cos we 've run out in the bank . |