Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 2 | I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead . |
| 3 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 4 | About4 weeks ago I realised I had only put this in the hallway after the title season , and promptly took it down . |
| 5 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 6 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 7 | Her fingers began to move over the sheet of paper , but when she had finished drawing the circle of standing stones , she found she had also sketched in the figure of Julius . |
| 8 | In the fine structure proposed we have only found a tendency towards the B II state ( with ε-ζ values of roughly -30° compared to -90° in B I and +90° in B II ) . |
| 9 | A woman police constable who reported him has since had to be transferred ‘ after being cold-shouldered ’ . |
| 10 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 11 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 12 | However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach . |
| 13 | ‘ All these years , Dad , I believed I 'd actually got some roots of my own , roots in this family , even a natural father in New Zealand — ’ She broke off and looked questioningly at her father . |
| 14 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 15 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
| 16 | The Maggot assumed I had already known that . |
| 17 | Some of her happiest hours were passed in making these costumes and she found that time flew by — it seemed she had barely started before her mother was calling for her to have her bath and go to bed . |
| 18 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 19 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 20 | By the time it came she had almost forgotten what the question was . |
| 21 | I noticed she had slightly knotted veins in her calves . |
| 22 | They had finished their meal , one at which he noticed she had hardly eaten anything . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 24 | A number of callers who believed they had recently seen the man telephoned the London headquarters after the programme and several called the Durham police headquarters at Akeley Heads . |
| 25 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 26 | In 1961 Treloar 's father bought neighbouring land , and believed he had also bought this waste land . |
| 27 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 28 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 29 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 30 | I noticed he 'd soon dropped the ‘ sir ’ as well . |