Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A lot of that was also due to the fact that we just did n't get into it , because of all the stuff got stolen after we 'd started and there was a big break of about five or six weeks when we could n't do anything . |
| 32 | ‘ But it started to topple so they had to let it back down on my legs again . |
| 33 | They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing . |
| 34 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 35 | I meant to ask if they 'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot . |
| 36 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 37 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 38 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
| 39 | The Shepherds preferred to live where they had lived in their shipbuilding days . |
| 40 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |
| 41 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 42 | and you read the number to me I said to see if I 've got it right . |
| 43 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 44 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 45 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 46 | That was the message Molly had received when she had come down the stairs and left her husband at the dinner table . |
| 47 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 48 | Cos I said seeing as you 've got to go into town tomorrow |
| 49 | She remembered how the temperature in the restaurant had dropped when she had made her unwitting gaffe . |
| 50 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 51 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 52 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 53 | It was the first time they had met although he had known of her existence as he had of all the handful of people who lived , as the Lydsett villagers said , ‘ t' other side of the gate ’ . |
| 54 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 55 | Well I said wait till he 's finished . |
| 56 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 57 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 58 | Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community . |
| 59 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 60 | Just as her mother had done when she 'd arrived in Athens so many years before . |