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

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1 They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise .
2 Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority
3 So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it .
4 But I say , the , I 'd heard such a lot of the Guild and the Guild 's influence was in Walsall Wood I think primarily , as I 'm always telling the women today , because they were so interested in the village and you got , they were local councillors , magistrates people you went to for advice .
5 He had separate orders , each locksmith and at this time I 'd done all the ord whatsit er and this and that and the other and I said what 's next ?
6 And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing .
7 I decided I would carry the six-pound loss myself rather than admit to him I 'd made such a fool of myself
8 I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T.
9 and I 'd lost half a stone in weight .
10 I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street .
11 Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up .
12 And I thought , well I 'll break it down so That was what it was , I 'd pulled all the fractions together , put them into a common denominator .
13 And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit .
14 I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now .
15 Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond
16 I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
17 ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble .
18 I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis .
19 How could I have done such a thing ?
20 How could I have done such a thing ?
21 I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad .
22 Someone recently said to me ‘ I 'm gradually getting over the death of my husband , but if I had realized all the extra work I would have I 'm not sure I could have coped .
23 Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see .
24 And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop .
25 I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it .
26 But er by the time I was ready to retire , I had planted all the half park .
27 In my excitement I had forgotten all the good advice about acclimatising to altitude and alcohol .
28 Finally I had shifted all the mini-devices form my headband to strategic spots on my Grislewing mask , and put it on .
29 As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’
30 Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order .
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