Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court . |
| 2 | If someone has suffered severe hearing loss for many years and suddenly is able to hear well through an aid , he is likely to have the same experience of surprise . |
| 3 | If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database . |
| 4 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 7 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd started classical guitar lessons , too , as that was the proviso for getting my original guitar . |
| 9 | Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again . |
| 10 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 11 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 12 | I had reached optimum trust in my balance and my feet . |
| 13 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 14 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 15 | Flying over the country at fifteen thousand feet at night , I had seen strange toy woods and towns and the eiderdown pattern of the fields . |
| 16 | I had received bad news . |
| 17 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 18 | At university I had done Moral Philosophy , English , French and German . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I had considered floral arrangement as a career . |
| 20 | I had experienced other bird observatories ; some were less well-endowed with the amenities of civilised living . |
| 21 | Spookily enough , I had come full circle : I was back working for Alan Lewis , the man who 'd given me my first music press job — as his secretary at Sounds , back in ( gulp ) 1977 . |
| 22 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 23 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 24 | I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate . |
| 25 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 26 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 27 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 28 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 29 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 30 | ‘ The fact that I 've achieved relative success at this club does n't help me now , and I do n't think it should be taken into account either . |