Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass . |
| 2 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 3 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 4 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 5 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 6 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 7 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 8 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 9 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She phoned me after you interviewed her and said she guessed you 'd found out about the affair — to warn me . |
| 11 | They claimed they had lost up to 30 kg in weight since the siege began . |
| 12 | Ethel 's brother , David Greenglass , claimed he had passed on to Julius some sketches and notes from Los Alamos about the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki . |
| 13 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 14 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 15 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 16 | It meant me having to dash back to England because my passport was at home , and we 'd got no tickets . |
| 17 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 18 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 19 | This was something that I felt I had to speak up about . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 21 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 22 | She even very kindly offered to attend to things , but I would not let her do that because I knew I had to face up to my responsibilities . |
| 23 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 24 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 25 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 26 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 27 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 28 | Harriet made a grunting sound that meant she 'd given in under protest and Jess did n't wait for any other sign . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew she 'd gone up to Jack 's — she always does now if he 's alone , makes no secret of it . |
| 30 | She suddenly knew she had to get out of this car . |