Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 2 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 3 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 4 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 5 | And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done . |
| 6 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |
| 7 | I suppose I 'd never really sat down and cried about it , ’ she recalls . |
| 8 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 9 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 10 | I had n't even flirted properly . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me something I had n't already figured out for myself . |
| 12 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 13 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 14 | Erm and it 's something I had n't quite considered before , that the greenbelt boundary and the Greater York area boundary is roughly . |
| 15 | I was hop I had n't , I had n't really made up my mind that 's plenty biscuits Paula , yeah it 's plent do n't get , biscuit mania , Easter eggs , God |
| 16 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , I had n't really kept up with technology and Windows , as far as I was concerned , was something behind the curtains . |
| 18 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 19 | This was not because I did n't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly . |
| 20 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that example , which I had not previously come across . |
| 21 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 22 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 23 | She said to her lap , ‘ I — I had not quite got round to it — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I had never really grown up . ’ |
| 25 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 26 | I had an experience with a bike when I was very small a girl up the road was given a bike and I had quite quietly learnt how to ride a bike more or less . |
| 27 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 28 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 29 | I had hardly even drawn before ; my attempts were inept , but I fumbled on until I had at least mastered the proportions of the human body ’ . |
| 30 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |