Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got .
2 Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen .
3 Many of them were predictably connected with the murder at the Turk 's Head and what he had seen , or thought he had seen , one night on the railway embankment that ran behind it .
4 Experience such as Lexandro had gained , or thought he had gained , in the nerve-glove …
5 After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable .
6 Or did she have to go back for something .
7 Had she seen a plastic brick floating , or did she have to think of a name for her wavy line and enclosed shape ?
8 Yes er somehow they , they 'd , they 'd got it , or was it or did I have to fill in a a census form just at the time when Paul was with me ?
9 Could you fix the door from inside or fr or did you have to do it from outside ?
10 You still looked nine thirty and then could you make even or did you have to wait around ?
11 Did you have a bedroom to yourself or did you have to share it ?
12 Were you given the money or did you have to pay for that yourself ?
13 The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given .
14 Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction .
15 Nor did he have to worry for long about hostility on the part of the gentry .
16 Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy .
17 went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house .
18 He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her .
19 We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again .
20 Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there .
21 ‘ Did you move about much in here when you came in and realised you 'd had an intruder ? ’
22 But when Farrel shook his hand he saw Lowell wince and realised he 'd gripped too hard .
23 Certainly , there were examples of transparent deception : for example , when , as proof of their transcendental patriotism , the ICP dissolved itself and announced it had become the Association for Marxist Studies .
24 Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India .
25 A CHESHIRE theatre yesterday raised the curtain on its Christmas show six months before it is due to open and disclosed it has scooped some of Britain 's major stars for its pantomime line-up .
26 WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game .
27 Ossie Ardiles then took to the witness stand and admitted he had paid Swindon Town players a tax-free bonus after taking over as manager from Lou Macari .
28 Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack .
29 Well is this one who and he said she ditch , she ditched her husband and got she 's got a new man or something
30 I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’
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