Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 2 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 3 | Edouard admitted he 'd been attacked but denied it was anything to do with Barbara being there . ’ |
| 4 | It was with a little fillip of surprise that Pascoe realized she had n't recognized his voice . |
| 5 | Pascoe realized he 'd spoken in a whisper . |
| 6 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 7 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 8 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 9 | Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop . |
| 10 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 11 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 12 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 13 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 14 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 15 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 16 | Coloured rugs covered most of the ancient dusty floor and the walls were of bare brick , but hung with decorations constructed from skulls , feathers and tapestry , which Apanage announced she had contrived herself . |
| 17 | As Pipelline went to press LASMO announced it had signed an agreement for the sale of its remaining Australian interests to SAGASCO Resources Ltd for Aus$10 million [ £4.8 million ] . |
| 18 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 19 | Dot realized she 'd already left to visit the man who was a gutless jink . |
| 20 | Half an hour later Meredith announced he 'd had enough . |
| 21 | Sheriff John Wheatley agreed there had been ‘ undue delay ’ and dismissed the charge . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell met I have n't sat here on this bed like a boy in a schoolroom reciting lists of facts for nothing ! ’ |
| 23 | The misery was shared by France 's Ville de Paris , who collided with Nippon and lost both the umpire 's verdict and most of the her bow , and New Zealand , who came from behind to cross the line 2ft in front of Il Moro di Venezia only to have the victory overturned when the umpires ruled she had brushed the finish-line buoy. 6univ |
| 24 | Ari realised she had never felt this before — not even at home , where time had been her own . |
| 25 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 26 | All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book . |
| 27 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 28 | CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior . |
| 29 | She was admitted on a Tuesday , and her husband and son visiting her on the Friday found she 'd had no food in that time . |
| 30 | By listening to the story , Dot found she had become brave . |