Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mia has since said she found true happiness with Allen . |
| 2 | It has since emerged he sent the letters from a York Post Office on that day before trying to gas himself in his car and take an overdose over the weekend . |
| 3 | Child killer Beverley Allitt has finally admitted she attacked nine children . |
| 4 | The inquest has already proved I did n't murder my father . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Paula Grey has also disappeared you said earlier . |
| 6 | At first the police treated his death as suspicious , but a post mortem has now revealed he died from hypothermia . |
| 7 | Well he has n't said you 'd been . |
| 8 | One commentator has indeed thought he found an echo of Dryden 's translation of Aeneid 2 , 417-20 , in the opening lines of Canto 4 ; but I am persuaded by later scholars that the case is untenable . |
| 9 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 10 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 11 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 12 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 13 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 14 | He 'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket . |
| 15 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 16 | As her body confirmed what he 'd already guessed she had neither the will nor wit to attempt to deny it any more . |
| 17 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |
| 18 | She 'd always known she possessed a temper , of course ; but , after one horribly painful childhood incident that was still burned into her memory like a scar , she 'd fought hard to master it , refusing ever again to let anger get the better of her . |
| 19 | I 'd always wondered what drove them , what were they about . |
| 20 | And when we 'd both done I freshened our cups . |
| 21 | Is ‘ Hype ’ the kind of material they 'd originally felt they wanted to do ? |
| 22 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 23 | She 'd never realised she possessed such a deep core of selfishness . |
| 24 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 25 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |
| 26 | I 'd never guessed — she went off with someone else , d' you see , I 'd never guessed she wanted that . ’ |
| 27 | Vainly some remaining logical part of her mind sought excuses but was drowned by the sheer surge of basic responses she 'd never known she possessed . |
| 28 | She had to call on acting powers she 'd never known she possessed to face Marianne calmly , but before she could say a word there was a knock on the door and Josh 's friendly , bearded face appeared . |
| 29 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 30 | How could I have ever believed I loved him ? she cried silently . |