Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals .
2 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
3 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
4 ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’
5 mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest
6 And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself .
7 I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques .
8 A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window …
9 I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ .
10 I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place .
11 In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd .
12 ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’
13 I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother .
14 I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ?
15 I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike .
16 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
17 George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different .
18 ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ?
19 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
20 But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing .
21 My mouth felt as if I 'd swallowed a cheesegrater and my scalp had suddenly acquired radioactive dandruff .
22 I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds .
23 There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been .
24 Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’
25 I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible .
26 At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake .
27 On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’
28 But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery .
29 I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’
30 We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up .
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