Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 2 | She 'd 'ave killed me if I 'd gone home without 'em . |
| 3 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 4 | ‘ You thought I 'd followed Simon to Adelaide , ’ she continued , ‘ but I 'd gone there on business . |
| 5 | I HAVE to admit that up to now , I 'd heard more about The Cranberries than of them . |
| 6 | I 'd suffered enough for my mistake . |
| 7 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 10 | And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . |
| 11 | His arrival had jolted me back into a proper appreciation of my problems , which I 'd pushed aside in my enjoyment of Mala 's warmer mood . |
| 12 | As far as I could remember I 'd rowed ashore in a fairly direct line from Joanna to the beach . |
| 13 | I 'd caddied there in 1978 , but I needed to get the feel and my bearings . |
| 14 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 15 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 16 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 17 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 18 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 19 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 20 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 22 | Aisha 's gold chain which I 'd carried away from her house hidden among my clothes was in my hands one moment and the next on the counter in the Oxford Street goldsmith 's . |
| 23 | going around and I 'd worked right through it because of all the Christmas preparation |
| 24 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 25 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 26 | An offer I could n't refuse , Dee-Dee had said ; and I 'd thought only of money . |
| 27 | Besides , I was still feeling a bit cut-up about … about the girl I 'd left behind in England . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd spoken frequently to Jamila on the phone , of course , and apparently Changez — solid , stable , unshakeable Changez — had turned quite mad after the naked-on-the-bed incident . |
| 29 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 30 | Gently , I extracted them from the soil with the trowel I 'd brought more as alibi than implement . |