Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 2 | And everyone knew you 'd quarrelled . |
| 3 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 4 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 5 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 6 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 7 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 8 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 9 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 10 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 11 | Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had . |
| 12 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 13 | you know the priority was either P H I , savings or whatever and I thought we 've gone through the whole form |
| 14 | And I thought we 've had to Eileen back something before because they 've fought . |
| 15 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 16 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |
| 17 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 19 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 20 | ‘ I stopped to make a phone call , and I thought I 'd better drop off some clothes at the dry-cleaner 's . ’ |
| 21 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 22 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 23 | And I thought I 'd got |
| 24 | And I thought I 'd caught it . |
| 25 | I nearly brought you down and treat , and I thought I 'd better not until I 've asked your mum . |
| 26 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 27 | It grew cold , and I thought I had a fever . |
| 28 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 29 | Teotihuacan was some twenty kilometres north-east of the centre of Mexico City and I thought I had probably glimpsed those pyramids through the dust haze as we flew in . |
| 30 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |