Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months . |
| 2 | Then the show ended and we had to return to America and I thought that was that — good friends , really talented , I 'd grown to really like David 's music . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 4 | In fact , I 'd suspected before tonight . |
| 5 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 6 | The only representative of the species I 'd met till then had been Jean Carmichael , with her hairy legs , head for hard liquor , and golden heart . |
| 7 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 8 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |
| 9 | It was a house I 'd passed by twice a day a hundred times or more . |
| 10 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'd left by then . ’ |
| 12 | Actually , I 've got a bit of cash , some policy I 'd forgotten about just realized , I was wondering what to do with it . |
| 13 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 14 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 15 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 16 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 17 | Did I have to go in there with him ? |
| 18 | WILL I HAVE TO DIET FOR EVER ? |
| 19 | Users , he says , should ask such questions as : does NT run on the platform I want ; do I have input into how NT is developed ; and is Microsoft committed to open standards ? |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 21 | I studied the apple tree I had gazed at before . |
| 22 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 23 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |
| 24 | From this point you get one of the best views in the Dales : to your right , Dentdale , Whernside , the foot of Deepdale and Dent town itself ; to your left , northern Dentdale , Frostrow and the Howgills ; while below you are spread the patched and parcelled fields of the dale which , on this June day , were coloured a green the like of which I had seen before only in Ireland . |
| 25 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 26 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 27 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 28 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 29 | I had hoped for more happy years . ’ |
| 30 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |