Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , I gave her more thinking time than I 'd bargained for as the crush at the bar was worse than when we 'd arrived .
2 Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas .
3 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
4 The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place .
5 I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge .
6 At twenty-eight , I began to find myself , having overcome the many spiritual depths I 'd sunk to in my emotional isolation .
7 and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast
8 I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape .
9 Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah .
10 I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country .
11 I went there about June , I had to go to about June nineteen thirty one .
12 So he left a very deep impression on me ; it was something I knew I had to work towards in the years ahead .
13 Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night .
14 She did n't ask me what my prospects were , or how much I earned , or whether I was sleeping with her daughter — all of which I had thought of as possible avenues of conversation .
15 All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day .
16 It was the bald man I had spoken with on the video trunk-call screen .
17 Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) .
18 Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all .
19 ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan .
20 This guy , [ whom ] I had worked with for seven years , is really very bright .
21 I did not connect what I had happened upon with love .
22 As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known .
23 I 've said in in in evidence that er in my evidence that erm that the sites may have a a role to play .
24 Er in the alternative of course er the local communities have available er the High Court action which I 've referred to during several discussions with yourselves over the last week or two .
25 Steven said : ‘ I think we are a stage ahead of the other Rangers teams I 've played with in Europe .
26 It 's about five I 've done in in two days .
27 For me this is the most exciting development of them all and it is something I 've believed in for many years .
28 But that 's the latest thing I 've heard of on the one anyway .
29 Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ?
30 Well erm take it from me that I 've worked for for major American corporates and one major British corporate and er there is still something that you may miss all right .
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