Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 2 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 3 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 4 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
| 5 | I doubted if he 'd heard . |
| 6 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 7 | Labour leaders doubted whether they had convinced the population of the need to support Republican Spain : |
| 8 | Accountability is not confined to policy matters , as William Whitelaw found when he had to report to an astonished House of Commons that an intruder had got into the Queen 's bedroom at Buckingham Palace . |
| 9 | Substituting t-butyl hydroperoxide for alloxan in a similar experiment , Clark found as he had hoped , that parasitaemia again dropped radically . |
| 10 | ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain . |
| 11 | stopped , and then prefer to go like when they appealed because he 'd knocked them again . |
| 12 | How long it seemed since she 'd had a touch of glamour in her life ! |
| 13 | He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out . |
| 14 | David Hagen , meanwhile , played from the start for the first time in Rangers ' colours and scored after he had knocked the ball over Tortolano 's head inside the penalty box , killed it on his chest and then struck a volley beyond Burridge . |
| 15 | Parks did have talent and right to the end , which came after he had shot his final roll on a Town & Country sitting , he never , ever dressed like a stockbroker . |
| 16 | His greatest idea came after he had written his first works and was doing an index for a book : this was to give a name composed of two words , a generic name and a specific or trivial one , to each species . |
| 17 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 18 | Fairbrother 's anxious moment came when he had made 43 during yesterday 's Benson & Hedges Cup semifinal victory against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 19 | My worst moment came when I had to change film . |
| 20 | Inevitably she got down , and the day came when she had to go , for her own sake really . |
| 21 | So Babushka trudged through the snow , asking everyone she met if they had seen the kings . |
| 22 | Quite , quite frankly I , I ca n't see Walsall moving , because it seems to have been money wasted if they 've made Fellas Park good and then they move somewhere else . |
| 23 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 24 | Mr Martin stood and asked if they had reached a verdict . |
| 25 | On the journey back , she asked if they had slept together — in fact , jocularly , if Jessica had notched up another broken heart — but Jessica shook her head , without the usual laugh . |
| 26 | Because she seemed troubled , I then asked if something had happened in her life that had caused this . |
| 27 | I just asked if he 'd got the other half of this card |
| 28 | The next morning Johanna 's sister , Emma , asked if he had seen her . |
| 29 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 30 | In New York , somebody asked if he had named his company after the Virgin Islands . |