Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd buzzed off one , but the rest I found hard to remember . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 6 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 14 | I 'd said after all I 've had done to me I said you 've caught 'em , I 'll prosecute . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 17 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 18 | Then they said well and then I realised that it was Fennite and I 'd heard of that |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 21 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 22 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 26 | I had to apply for access — access to my own daughter who I 'd lived with all her life . |
| 27 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 28 | I 'd stood near that very spot with a chum and rejoiced at Wilson 's victory . |
| 29 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 30 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |