Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 2 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | He felt strangely afraid and tried to pretend that he had not seen him , but Basil hurried after him . |
| 5 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 6 | He tried to remember if there had been a particular shop nearby but he failed . |
| 7 | As Henry watched her retreating buttocks , grinding out yet another dismissal , he tried to remember if there had ever been a time , years ago , when he had desired her . |
| 8 | I tried to remember if there had been a dog with him , but it was difficult to concentrate . |
| 9 | As I climbed , I tried to remember if I had shut the Wheel Room door . |
| 10 | Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back . |
| 11 | She tried to remember if she had brought anything illegal . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Hammersmith , who usually knows better , tried to suggest that there had been a 30 per cent . |
| 13 | No wonder the Government of the day tried to conceal that it had spent public money on bringing some dotty lady down from her high table to tell us what it is to want what we want . |
| 14 | Jinny swallowed her rage and tried to forget that she had wanted to go up to Back Clough Dale today . |
| 15 | The party broke up when Father D'Arcy , whose life was organized round the liturgy , rose saying that he had to attend an obligatory office at Campion Hall . |
| 16 | Hazily , Meredith tried to recall if they 'd always looked so intensely inviting . |
| 17 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 18 | Not angry but loving calls , which the midwife tried to hush because she had never encountered young women who could yell abuse so lovingly ; , |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 20 | With resignation she felt the colour steal into her face , and knew he would n't believe her even as she tried to explain that she had n't even seen the rings but had been absorbed by the ornaments . |
| 21 | As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others . |
| 22 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 23 | It would also be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had the article with him or her for use at work ; for religious reasons or as part of any national costume . |
| 24 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 25 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 26 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 27 | She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men . |
| 28 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 30 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |