Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is often the way with Mughal ruins : while the more primitive forts which preceded them still have an aura of power as they rise solid and impregnable from the burning plains , the silky refinement expressed in Mughal architecture turns , in decay , to something approaching seediness . |
| 32 | Well , after Marks advert for Clubcall I decided I just had to hijack the fax machines telephone line and call it up . |
| 33 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 34 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 35 | When Sarazen saw him , he decided he gently had to tell Dan that he did not think he was going to be able to carry his bag . |
| 36 | These revelations come from talking to Personnel managers who admitted they often have to force over-stressed employees to have time off . |
| 37 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 38 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 39 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 40 | Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set . |
| 41 | After reading the letter from Audrey Haagensen in the September issue I felt I just had to write to you . |
| 42 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
| 43 | I was not at all afraid , because I knew I still had the power to calm him . |
| 44 | I thought I probably had misunderstood you . |
| 45 | I thought I just had a voice . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify . |
| 47 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 48 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |
| 49 | I worked it out from what cards I 'd got and what I knew somebody else had n't got |
| 50 | But Carmen , 40 , turned her down because she felt she already had too many children on her books . |
| 51 | No binges , just occasional overeating 13 Felt she still had difficulties to address but was free from her eating problems |
| 52 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
| 53 | In August 1746 Leapor looked forward to a career as a writer and perhaps she felt she now had less cause to protest . |
| 54 | She struggled to get out , slipping and sliding on the bank , falling , when she felt she almost had purchase , back again into the disgusting weed-ridden swamp . |
| 55 | Those that sent you here have forgotten you , buried you , stamped down the earth on your memory . |
| 56 | He knew she only had his best interests at heart but he had yet to meet one of these women whose interest in him stemmed beyond his bank balance . |
| 57 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 58 | I knew she now had a boyfriend . |
| 59 | If you knew you only had five years to live , what would you do ? |
| 60 | The SI thought you just had to show how the nightmare worked and everyone would wake up . |