Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 2 | He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out . |
| 3 | Because she seemed troubled , I then asked if something had happened in her life that had caused this . |
| 4 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 5 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 6 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 7 | Prince Philip asked if she had co-operated with royal writer Andrew Morton as he prepared his best-seller Diana : Her True Story . |
| 8 | ‘ But we wo n't be able to say what happened until we have looked at the area in daylight . ’ |
| 9 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |
| 10 | Wagons rolled on again through the valley — women laughed 'cause they 'd kept on their hair |
| 11 | I 'm gon na come in first thing Monday thought cos I 've got ta pick some things up right . |
| 12 | Martin apologized because he had shouted at Alice in front of them all — he had been no angrier , Nick considered , than any father had a right to be — but after that , he seemed disinclined to discuss her . |
| 13 | I think there were some people there who did n't really know , but they maybe went because they 'd got to a funeral . |
| 14 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 15 | He had had Havvie Blaine investigated when he had heard of Sally-Anne 's engagement to him , and her rejection of him had saved him , and her , a deal of pain and trouble . |
| 16 | I enquired if he had volunteered for Pathfinders , to which he replied that he had thought about it , I told him if he wanted to come he could join my squadron . |
| 17 | I also enquired whether anyone had suffered from constipation whilst following the diet . |
| 18 | The distinctive characteristics of Glass 's music appeared after he had worked with the Indian sitarist , Ravi Shankar , in 1965 . |
| 19 | She waited until he had passed through the door that led to the stairs ; then she covered up the trays of now cooling toffee , put a saucer of milk down for the cat , stroked the animal 's purring head , saying the while , ‘ Now you get to work , Flotsie , and put your score up tonight , ’ then she went out , and locked the door . |
| 20 | And he said erm yeah he said cos we 've got ta pay this he said because it 's all in the guarantee . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes — I waited till you 'd finished with your schools … her voice tailed off . |
| 22 | Franco responded as he had done with Hitler , presenting a shopping list and saying that the provision of the items on it ( which ranged from aircraft to foodstuffs ) was a prerequisite for Spanish cooperation . |
| 23 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 24 | Fred said when they had dropped into Jacksons of Piccadilly to buy Daisy some out-of-season strawberries that they had n't thought of in Fortnum 's . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , Freud was there , ’ Sergei said when we had emerged into the unnaturally brilliant November day . |
| 26 | Of course I suspected where it had come from . |
| 27 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 28 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 29 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 30 | Cornelius wondered whether he had stumbled into the rehearsal for some fringe event of the now legendary Edinburgh Festival . |