Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added : ‘ I 'd heard of babies born addicted to drugs . |
| 2 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 3 | I was a trifle nervous when I remembered all the films I 'd seen about weddings . |
| 4 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 8 | Sometimes from my high Chiswick window I 'd thought about horrors down below the surface , out of sight . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 16 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 17 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 18 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So I had ascertained from newspapers . |
| 21 | I sobered , thinking of sagas I had heard of wolves , but my father hushed me . |
| 22 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had gone through auditions before and they were much tougher than that . |
| 25 | ‘ Newcastle claimed they pulled out because I had gone for talks with Wimbledon . |
| 26 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 27 | Later I had the honour and privilege of meeting Odette Churchill , the heroine of the French Resistance , someone I had admired for years , ever since reading about her exploits when she received her medal after the war . |
| 28 | After a day or so , they started to inspect the half-buried ¾″ plastic pipes I had provided as caves . |
| 29 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 30 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |