Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
32 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
33 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
34 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
35 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
36 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
37 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
38 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
39 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
40 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
41 | I 'd done some wedding stationery for a friend , and I 'd painted two hundred and twenty pieces , er erm , sheets of wedding stationery for her , with erm , bud roses and things , I think I might have shown you one , actually . |
42 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
43 | 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 . |
44 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
45 | this morning what I 'd done this morning was just dancing about cos I , I had to go to the toilet I could n't wait |
46 | I 'd recorded some background music for her too and it did n't sound as if she 'd added to her collection . |
47 | I wish now I 'd asked that question . |
48 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
49 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
50 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
51 | I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another . |
52 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
53 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
54 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
55 | Before , I 'd felt little resentment |
56 | I 'd ensured generous media coverage . |
57 | I 'd envisioned more movement , excitement — fantasy , even . ’ |
58 | I 'd saved some money , grown heartily sick of London , fast food and maybe people , too , and I was getting out . |
59 | I 'd swapped some toy cars for a set of poker dice in a red leather case . |
60 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |