Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone has to work to change this . |
2 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
3 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
4 | It could well be that someone has tried to make this look like murder followed by suicide . ’ |
5 | I think everyone 's accepted that fact , er , at the end of the day , someone has got to make some very , very bad decisions . |
6 | I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to . |
7 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
8 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |
9 | ‘ The whole trial could hang on whether or not I 'd thought to take that stupid , self-centred , mad old woman flowers ? ’ |
10 | I did n't know why I 'd agreed to attend this festival . |
11 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |
12 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
13 | What do I have to do to get some attention , jump in after him ? ’ |
14 | Would I have bothered to go all the way into town if we had arranged to meet here ? ’ |
15 | And then I started to wonder if what I had seen had some connection with the secret telephone calls Jean-Claude made , and the evenings he spent apart from me with nameless friends . |
16 | I felt tempted to tell him that I had begun to glimpse some of the mystery behind Selkirk 's verses but my anger kept me silent . |
17 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
18 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
19 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
20 | I had wanted to help these people and their King . |
21 | Above all other expeditions I had wanted to complete this one — to follow in the footsteps of Jean-Claude and his beloved sister , and regain their paradise . |
22 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
23 | I had hoped to enclose some of her photographs but the collapse of the Serbian postal system prevented me . |
24 | Well I ca came home , I had Derek 's overalls in the the sink , they need washing on their own , and I said to Cla , so I had to go shopping this morning because Claire only worked all day yesterday so she |
25 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
26 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
27 | I had tried to diet many times before . |
28 | If I had tried to impose either of the above on another class I doubt the drama would work . |
29 | I had offered to leave most of my collection , comprising the best part , in the USSR , and had simultaneously asked if they would let me take part of it with me . |
30 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |