Example sentences of "[pers pn] have learn " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of which I 'd learnt from Churchill , of course . |
| 2 | I 'd learnt me lesson with the others , they did n't work it on me again like that . |
| 3 | In the end I threw my yoghurt pot full of glue at her and said the ‘ f ’ word I 'd learnt from Auntie . |
| 4 | Some subjects , I 'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde , were better left only as implications . |
| 5 | Tremayne bore the jokes with reasonable fortitude , cheered by the absence of enquiry or even remarks from the Jockey Club , not even strictures about ‘ bringing racing into disrepute ’ , which I 'd learned was the yardstick for in-house punishment . |
| 6 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 7 | In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores . |
| 8 | The railroad across Canada , I 'd learned , was single track for most of the way . |
| 9 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 10 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 11 | Then , when I was about 18 or 19 I figured that I 'd learned every rock guitar lead that I ever wanted to know — all my favourite Ulrich Roth solos and all my favourite Frank Marino leads . |
| 12 | ‘ Once I 'd learned about what had happened here , like so many other people I was absolutely staggered , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 14 | That 's all I ever wanted to do in boxing after I 'd learned the craft and now I want to make a little bit more ’ . |
| 15 | Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more . |
| 16 | ‘ Once I 'd learned to fight , it stopped bothering me . |
| 17 | Somehow this surprised me — not the word sod ( I 'd learned most of my swear-words at Addy 's knee ) but the word silly . |
| 18 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 19 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 20 | Forty minutes later my neck was long , my hips were free , my knees were out , my back was wide and I 'd learned how to sit down . |
| 21 | By the time I 'd learned to appreciate the Stage , I was already on it . |
| 22 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |
| 23 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 24 | I 'd learned nothing from it at all . |
| 25 | To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland ! |
| 26 | ‘ Why do I have to learn things I do n't want to know ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 27 | " Do I have to learn German ? " |
| 28 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 29 | She helped with the spadework in the early days of the Wisley garden , I had learned . |
| 30 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |