Example sentences of "and [pron] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was late in the day and nothing had led up to it .
2 I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of
3 Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools
4 Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’
5 He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch .
6 Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock
7 erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones
8 ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb .
9 No , hold on , and I 've turned up with the wrong one .
10 ‘ I 've lived here all my life , Mr Wycliffe , and I 've grown up with such tales ; nobody takes them seriously . ’
11 ‘ I had n't forgotten , and I 've come round to being sorry that you do , but as it 's unlikely that the hatred is going to change , and since we both know that this is ultimately inevitable , it might as well happen now . ’
12 Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea .
13 Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident .
14 Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there .
15 When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out .
16 Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice !
17 It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water .
18 Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her .
19 Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan .
20 This was a need that Pat Bateson , Gabriel Horn and I had hammered out in many long discussions about our imprinting experiments , and which we had tried to meet in practice in the design of the controls we had used in the early 1970s .
21 My sick leave has obviously interrupted this process and I have missed out on all three .
22 And I have pointed out in my papers that you must bear in mind perhaps that er quite a number of Rich er quite a number of the districts in North Yorkshire are of county scale in their sheer size and that therefore it is not inappropriate that at that level that the policies would be refined .
23 Changing the subject completely , I had a quick glance through one of the soccer mags this dinnertime , and someone had written in about Leeds .
24 What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed .
25 The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform .
26 I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street
27 They only ever come around to yours when the sink 's full of washing-up , there 's a pile of dirty washing on the kitchen floor , the sitting room looks as if it has n't been Hoovered for a month , there are empty Smarties packets down the sides of the chairs , toast crumbs all over the tables , cobwebs in the corner and you 've run out of coffee .
28 So you 're quite happy with that , one hundred , two hundred , three hundred , four hundred , five hundred , six hundred oh I can do this standing on my head , right and you s you stop concentrating so much , and you 've gone up to , so that should be a seven hundred
29 You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it .
30 And then this , this time I say well I 'm going to take away some money and I took away a negative amount and you 've finished up with more .
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