Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 2 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 3 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 4 | So I thought I 'd had it . |
| 5 | So I thought I 've killed him . |
| 6 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 7 | Now that 's Wednesday you see so I knew we 'd got to do it . |
| 8 | So I knew I had to avoid that . |
| 9 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 10 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
| 11 | So I explained what had happened . |
| 12 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 13 | You 've been gone so long I thought someone had run off with you . ’ |
| 14 | I really meant to get in touch with you again after Paris , but somehow I felt I 'd blown it . |
| 15 | I played for a while , and then I stole up to look at her , because she was so still I thought she had fallen asleep , but her eyes were wide open , and there was colour , all rosy , high on her cheeks . |
| 16 | Mr but like I pretended I had to go and see him not because I had to go and see him just because I did n't wan na go to assembly really ! |
| 17 | And also I knew he 'd booked a holiday to go to Antigua , but me being totally ignorant about cricket , did n't realise he was going to watch the Antigua versus England test match in April , so that 's where he 's off to in April . |
| 18 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 19 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 20 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 21 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 22 | I was scared to death , really I thought I 'd got the push . |
| 23 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 24 | I said you ai n't sharp I said you 've got all your priorities wrong I said you stood there Jane with thirteen pound ai n't you , in an envelope ? |
| 25 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 26 | how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort |
| 27 | well I thought they 'd gone but , but I saw them here . |
| 28 | and er I says well I thought you 'd got some . |
| 29 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |
| 30 | Well I thought you had to pay for that Ken ? |