Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ponies in the paddock , that sort of romantic scenario everyone has to come to terms with . ’ |
| 2 | She added : ‘ I 'd heard of babies born addicted to drugs . |
| 3 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 4 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 5 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 6 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 9 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 10 | erm Yes it 's quite interesting I mean the if you go and look at the computerised facility that I 'd found about communications training , there are something like three hundred and ninety two sources of training in Scotland . |
| 11 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 12 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 13 | Will I have to look after children if they are ill ? |
| 14 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 15 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 16 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 17 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 18 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 19 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 20 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 21 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 22 | One minute dangling on the end of a rope ; the next a reprieve , a bumpy ride through Paris , followed by the sweetest bread and most fragrant wine I had tasted for months . |
| 23 | So I had ascertained from newspapers . |
| 24 | I sobered , thinking of sagas I had heard of wolves , but my father hushed me . |
| 25 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 26 | Cos I had to go to doctors , you see , at quarter past two . |
| 27 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 28 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 29 | I had gone through auditions before and they were much tougher than that . |
| 30 | ‘ Newcastle claimed they pulled out because I had gone for talks with Wimbledon . |