Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 2 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 3 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 4 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 5 | I could picture my mum and the nurse , who , for some reason , I had decided was Irish . |
| 6 | I hoped what I had written was okay . |
| 7 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 8 | District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue . |
| 9 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 10 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 11 | ‘ Until then the most I had done was two or three costumes at a budget of £50 . |
| 12 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 13 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 14 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 15 | The longest period I 've abstained was two-and-a-half months . |
| 16 | The one I 've seen was that one on the front page . |
| 17 | What I 've done was three minus ten seven . |
| 18 | I th I think the , the most suitable placement I 've found was that one in Dover but there , there , then there 's the the erm the Christian motivation . |
| 19 | And she said that 's all she 'd made was five phone calls . |
| 20 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 21 | The future she 'd visualized was silly , puppies and a row of kennels and being alone . |
| 22 | The open-topped Suzuki jeep she 'd hired was easy to drive and the breeze whipping through her hair helped to clear her head . |
| 23 | if I may say so is a key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you 've discussed were off-market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the financial institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 24 | Now all she had to do was fool Felipe de Santis and go against all her principles . |
| 25 | Eventually she agreed with me that no harm could come from using regression therapy , particularly when I assured her that , should she change her mind at any point , all she had to do was open her eyes and the session would automatically come to an end . |
| 26 | What she had seen was indecent and terrifying , and she could tell her fear to nobody . |
| 27 | Now the patch she had stirred was darker grey . |
| 28 | She seems a bit spiteful and not very bright but what she had to say was factual . ’ |
| 29 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 30 | To that extent , what she had done was understandable . |