Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 3 | Oh , I 'd registered when I was eighteen , like everyone else . |
| 4 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 5 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 6 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 7 | I 'd asked if he was an expert forger , and I would n't put it past him . |
| 8 | I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! " |
| 9 | And scared again , like I 'd felt when I 'd woken before . |
| 10 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 11 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 12 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 13 | But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) . |
| 14 | My appointments and everything I 'd got before I came along and erm he went on to tell me , if company . |
| 15 | Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton . |
| 16 | ‘ It was much easier than I 'd expected though we had very good weather , sunny and dry all the way . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 18 | I only say this , because it 's always been very difficult to get erm , America to take any , any interest at all in developing in England , and , how and I 'd wondered if it 's still the same situation . |
| 19 | Well I 'd known if you said anything private , and I wipe it off |
| 20 | Q. What do I have to do when I find a house I like ? |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ he admitted , ‘ and so , perhaps , would I have done if you had not come . |
| 22 | ‘ What should I have done if there was nobody there ? |
| 23 | And if I did n't follow your car , which I did n't , how on earth would I have known where you lived ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And what would I have found if I had ? |
| 25 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
| 26 | So that was the embarrassment I had to do when we went and saw er , Mr erm I had to say to him , you charge BUPA rates do you ? |
| 27 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 28 | I was scared stiff of going down those cellar steps but Frankie was n't around to do it so I had to do as I was told . |
| 29 | I said I had to leave because I was going to dinner . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |