Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways .
2 ‘ But the truth is , there was never anything between us — not after I 'd discovered she cared more for her mirror than for anything or anyone else . ’
3 Before I 'd joined they 'd called themselves Strand — after the Roxy Music song ‘ Do The Strand — and The Swankers but both these names were well past their sell-by date by the time I arrived .
4 What if I 'd said we killed them all ?
5 but when it come out me mouth , as soon as I said it I thought you should n't speak to people to people like that but I 'd said it had n't I ?
6 It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies .
7 I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers .
8 I 'd heard they 'd started taking people on .
9 Well , I 'd heard someone had told the police where I was hanging out .
10 I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years
11 I I 'd heard he wrote a few things .
12 Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling
13 I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school .
14 I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde .
15 Not easy for her to deny me , I 'd assumed she meant , not easy to continue denying herself .
16 With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours .
17 And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or
18 Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’
19 I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty
20 Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material .
21 It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office .
22 But it explained a few things — the kindness I 'd thought I 'd detected , his seemingly unreasonable act of firing me …
23 When he thumped her I 'd thought he 'd seen her before .
24 I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in .
25 keep it okay for you in fact that 's who I 'd thought you 'd gone to , I thought you had called in at their house like cos must of seen his , I thought you must of seen his run out his car at
26 Well I 'd thought you 'd winter ?
27 oh , oh Tiny , I 'd thought you 'd finished I do n't mind paying ninety nine P for these , because they , so much goes towards
28 When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing .
29 When I 'd finished he hummed and hawed a bit , but finally admitted he was at fault and promised to apologise to you as well .
30 ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’
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