Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My heart has gone out of it . ’ |
| 2 | Dear Lennie , MY heart 's gone out to you this week . |
| 3 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 4 | My weight had gone up to eight stone so at least I was looking relatively human . |
| 5 | ‘ When I came out again my weight had gone down to 8 stone and it 's definitely an experience I would n't like to go through again , but it gives you a new outlook on life . |
| 6 | that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted . |
| 7 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 8 | My , my years have caught up with me you know . |
| 9 | Yes I 'm waiting , my wife 's gone back to be tempted |
| 10 | Yeah , I I 've well that makes a change you know I mean some of my stuff 's come back from them and I 've wondered whether they 've read it . |
| 11 | One hour later I had recovered consciousness , was lying drugged and bloodless in my bed , and my father had gone out with the shotgun he owned then to look for Old Saul . |
| 12 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 13 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 14 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 15 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 16 | Spurs had sold the tickets my mate had reserved on to someone else . |
| 17 | ‘ My past has caught up with me , I was not fast enough in building my machine . ’ |
| 18 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 19 | My pension 's made up with social security and I 've |
| 20 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 21 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 22 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 23 | So my outburst had got through to the big dog — he knew I was n't going to stand any more nonsense from him . |
| 24 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 25 | I rang Morrison and he told me Nigel had driven down to Streatley and found the body dead in bed at about quarter past eleven on Sunday night . |
| 26 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 27 | But Purcell did not set the lyrics in quite the way their writer had mapped out for him . |
| 28 | All her hair had dropped out in the night and she was choking on it . ’ |
| 29 | Her heart had sunk down into her shoes . |
| 30 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |