Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe my connection with them has rebounded on Sheffield United . |
| 2 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 3 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 4 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 5 | I 'd heard on the grapevine it was nearly settled . ’ |
| 6 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 7 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 8 | This I 'd reckoned on : each morning he bottles the gook it gives off , and , every couple of months or so , takes it to the pharmacy for like $3.45 . |
| 9 | I 'd planned on taking you to Malvern to meet my family , but , it 'll have to be another day . |
| 10 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 11 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
| 12 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 13 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 14 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
| 15 | I 'd got on my feet you see |
| 16 | But I had n't got much but I 'd got on my feet . |
| 17 | The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan . |
| 18 | It was then that I saw that the folder I 'd left on the coffee table was gone . |
| 19 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 20 | I was starting to get that unreal sense , the dream feeling I 'd had on invasion day all that time ago ; the idea that it was n't really me who was going through all this . |
| 21 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 22 | Cos I 'd parked on the top of this multi-storey car park at the offices , is it called ? |
| 23 | I 'd sat on my palliasse writing notes , watching Selma plait her hair , trying to decide when to get up and walk down the inlet far enough to be out of sight in order to go to the loo . |
| 24 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 25 | I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot . |
| 26 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 27 | I had relied on her for support of every kind , long after I was grown-up . |
| 28 | Horace Evans had told me that Anthony Eden would get better , and I had relied on him going on . |
| 29 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 30 | I was trapped by a set of dictates I had imposed on myself and others , and my aggressive public image doggedly intruded itself into my personal relationships . |