Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 2 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 3 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 4 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 5 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 6 | Anyway it stopped , I thought I 'd gone deaf ! |
| 7 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 8 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 9 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 10 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 11 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 12 | ‘ I had a call from 20th Century Fox — I 'd done Sleeping With The Enemy for them — and arranged to meet the director in Atlanta . |
| 13 | If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school . |
| 14 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 15 | ‘ I could hardly start a major scare until I 'd made certain , could I ? ’ |
| 16 | Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off . |
| 17 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 18 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 19 | I said I 'd felt queasy suddenly . |
| 20 | ‘ Even though you thought I was fond of Simon , even though you believed I 'd felt bad about cheating on him ? ’ she protested . |
| 21 | Until this moment I 'd felt incapable of operating effectively in the world ; I did n't know how to do it ; events tossed me about . |
| 22 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 23 | I 'd ensured generous media coverage . |
| 24 | And then , just after I 'd fallen asleep , as I thought , there was the damned organ moaning away and it was 6 a.m. again . |
| 25 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 26 | I 'd fallen asleep , and now I was awake . |
| 27 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
| 28 | And er I 'd fallen asleep , it had clicked off and I was still asleep ! |
| 29 | While I was there they found out I 'd fallen pregnant while I was on my home leave from Bullwood Hall . |
| 30 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |