Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brent Council : a minority Tory administration kept in power by the two-member ‘ Democratic Labour Party ’ , two Africanist former Labour councillors , one of whom has publicly praised Idi Amin and is under investigation by the fraud squad . |
| 2 | See I 've already got Ron a big tin of Liquorice Allsorts . |
| 3 | I 'm gon na fix that , no do I 'll , yeah I 'll bring some from home cos I wan I wan na nip home for er an hour and I 'll er I 've just seen Anne . |
| 4 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 5 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 6 | I 'd just won Wimbledon and wanted a lot of action , but there was nothing and nobody . |
| 7 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 8 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 9 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , well , I 'd already crossed Belgravia off the list , ’ Preston confessed . |
| 11 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 12 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
| 13 | I 'd never seen Terry look so hopeful about anything before . |
| 14 | I 'd never seen Lisabeth so sentimental before . |
| 15 | I 'd never seen Paula in , in glasses , ever , other than in photographs |
| 16 | No , I 'd never heard Hilary mention him , ’ said Mrs Frome . |
| 17 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 18 | I wish I 'd never taken Maurin 's money , but all I can do now is keep quiet and wait for it to end . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I wish I 'd never told Joyce , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I 'd always guessed Nicola had a rich fantasy life but I 'd never guessed it was quite that rich , ’ she snorted derisively . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd always known Alan was mad about kids and I would n't deny him his chance to be a father . |
| 22 | I 'd really liked Mrs F. ‘ Cal , you 're not pregnant or anything , are you ? ’ |
| 23 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 24 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 25 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 26 | I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco . |
| 27 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 28 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 29 | I had duly collected Nigel 's ashes . |
| 30 | ‘ I had previously studied Charles 's chart and had noted that he has very unrealistic expectations of women . |