Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone has made me feel so very welcome and I 'm fortunate in that . ’ |
2 | I 'd never met him , but I 'd heard him speak once , and there was no doubt that he could move people . |
3 | Another thing I was gon na ask you about was erm I 'd heard somebody mention ploughing competitions with horses . |
4 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
5 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
6 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |
7 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
8 | ‘ I 'd seen you ride . |
9 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
10 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
11 | I repeated what I had seen him do . |
12 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
13 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
14 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
15 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
16 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
17 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
18 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
19 | But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after . |
20 | When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’ |
21 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
22 | Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’ |
23 | I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’ |
24 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
25 | But I had to make him keep you on . |
26 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
27 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
28 | ‘ Father Poole became very excited when I mentioned your name , and very annoyed when I told him I had let you go . |
29 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
30 | I catch a piercing look I 've seen him give other guys ; Gregory , when he would n't jump a six-foot gap on the fourteenth storey ; Nick , when we learned about his drinking . |