Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 2 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 3 | Although opinion polls still show the centre-right 's candidate , Mr Fernando Collor , leading by five million votes , the difference between them has dropped from 13 to six points in one week . |
| 4 | I think for outsiders it looks like nothing has moved at all , but when you 're involved in the strike in fact things have been moving quite fast in very many important ways throughout the ten months . |
| 5 | Bonner said : ‘ Nothing has changed at Celtic . |
| 6 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 7 | I 'd buzzed off one , but the rest I found hard to remember . |
| 8 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 10 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd gone to all that trouble to lure you into my net , sort out the money , only to send you back into his arms . |
| 12 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 13 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 14 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 15 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 16 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 17 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 18 | I 'd said after all I 've had done to me I said you 've caught 'em , I 'll prosecute . |
| 19 | I did n't really blame you for not wanting me to come near you , but it was n't a particularly pleasant experience to realise that I 'd put someone I 'd loved through such an appalling time . |
| 20 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 21 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 22 | Then they said well and then I realised that it was Fennite and I 'd heard of that |
| 23 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 24 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 25 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 26 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 27 | Now that the little spot of reality I 'd made in this mean city has been so lightly abandoned by those I 'd thought it would be safe with — but you wo n't catch me compromising with the lackeys . |
| 28 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 29 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 30 | I had to apply for access — access to my own daughter who I 'd lived with all her life . |