Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 2 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 3 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 4 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 5 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 6 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 7 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 8 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd gone up to Ethel 's sister to cheer her up because she was looking so miserable . |
| 10 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 11 | And then , after I 'd gone round to Tesco 's I went to see to collect grandma to take her to the train . |
| 12 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 13 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
| 14 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 15 | I 'd gone along with some of the lads — my first wife was never that keen on travel — and there she was . |
| 16 | I 'd gone out with him a few times — pictures in Penzance , that sort of thing , and father being away … |
| 17 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 18 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 19 | And er with Michael I 'd gone out in Richard 's and bought mys , ever such a full raincoat when it was in fashion . |
| 20 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 21 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 22 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 23 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 25 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 26 | Trouble was , I 'd stood out against Crumwallis earlier this week . |
| 27 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish I 'd stayed on at college . |
| 29 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 30 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |