Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ When I look at it logically , it would have been a bit selfish for me to have had a child . |
| 62 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 63 | Can you imagine how bitter it is for me to have to write that sentence ? |
| 64 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 65 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 66 | To achieve anything in an organization such as I have described requires an endless study and understanding of the politics of what is going on , even if you yourself are not politically inclined . |
| 67 | ‘ Engines driven by steam will propel a ship such as I have described , and they are within the ability of the men of this world to build . ’ |
| 68 | Any course of action such as I have suggested is fraught with difficulty , and everyone must recognise that . |
| 69 | And she 's got ta I 've said to her , listen my opinion may be biased . |
| 70 | Coming back , I 've got ta I 've got ta stand here so I can turn the camera on ! |
| 71 | No I 've got ta I 've got ta find out which which comics are which which . |
| 72 | yeah I think yeah and , and he er , he look , he did n't even know how to take bloody back off I had to show him how to take it , I said oh I 'm not leaving this with him , that were video |
| 73 | Are we still doing anything about I 've got to I 've got some inf information about . |
| 74 | Pete while you 're talking about I 've got I 've I 've got a quickie to bring up on that . |
| 75 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 76 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 77 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 78 | But we 'll have one after everyone 's had a rotten Christmas . |
| 79 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 80 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 81 | What did remain in that paper , that year , was a hankering after what had survived from 1967 , exemplified in the prose of John Peel . |
| 82 | After what had passed I thought there was a line drawn between us . |
| 83 | Now , after what had happened with Mr Bishop , she had become even more convinced of this . |
| 84 | She had believed him even now , even after what had happened and was happening , when he had said that his love for her remained as it had ever been , something eternal . |
| 85 | After what had happened the previous evening exquisite delicacy had seemed uncalled for . |
| 86 | ‘ After what had happened I could n't face trying to contact you . |
| 87 | Her father , after what had happened in front of the telly that evening , was first on her list . |
| 88 | Obviously I could not relax and take stock in the turret after what had happened , so I worked my way back to the Bible Room , closed the door quietly and lay down in the bunk . |
| 89 | She tried to think more rationally , to dismiss the darker possibilities from her mind , but after what had happened here in the past week or so she found the worrying thoughts came more easily . |
| 90 | And then it would n't occur to her that after what had happened , he would have the nerve to go under his own steam . |