Example sentences of "[vb past] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 2 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 3 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 4 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 5 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 6 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 7 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 8 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 9 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |