Example sentences of "[noun] i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 32 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 33 | For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association . |
| 34 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 35 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 36 | In despair , I told my husband I 'd bought a book on how to cure children 's sleep problems . |
| 37 | That day I had bought a fern , a modest enough plant but with bright , shiny leaves and an indestructible appearance . |
| 38 | You and Susan and I. I 've got a job already — exercising two kids for ten bob a week . |
| 39 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |
| 40 | The Sea Rover episode was the only occasion I have known a smuggling vessel to be fired upon directly during my time with the customs , as a result of failing to heave-to for customs examination . |
| 41 | Under Chambers 's auspices I 've prepared a questionnaire on ( intermediate ) learners ' dictionaries , along with a piece of sample text and a batch of parallel extracts from four other publishers ' dictionaries of about the same level , and I 'd be ever so grateful if I could send you about 10 of these sets to distribute amongst fellow teachers and some of the students , as you think fit ; and of course I 'd be pleased if you 'd answer one yourself . |
| 42 | Every time I go through a lean spell I 've lost a yard ; every time I score a goal it means I 'm over the hepatitis . |
| 43 | This month I 've chosen a variety of recipes — like cherry gâteau , banana and chocolate soufflé , and ginger truffles — to show just some of the ways chocolate can be used to add that special mouthwatering touch to your cooking . |
| 44 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 45 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 46 | Give him a pack of Aspirins I 've got a pack here . |
| 47 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 48 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 49 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
| 50 | Does me good to go and look through some of these , I think my God I 've got a palace ! |
| 51 | One of the best ways of knowing , think if you have taken work home sometimes and you get to about ten , half past ten , and suddenly you think , God I 've got a headache , or my neck hurts , my shoulders ache , those sorts of things . |
| 52 | In 945 Malcolm I had signed a treaty with Edmund of England agreeing that in respect of lands held by himself in Strathclyde , which included Cumberland , he owed fealty to Edmund . |
| 53 | Q I have bought a pair ( ? ) of Green Terrors ( Aequidens rivulatus ) which are in a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank with undergravel filtration . |
| 54 | Q I have bought a plant called Impatiens congolensis , but ca n't find out anything about it . |
| 55 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 56 | By the use of the last phrase I have indicated a comparison that may possibly be drawn between Gandhi and Paul Tillich . |
| 57 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 58 | When he said that about kidneys and tigers I 'd felt a shock of fear . |
| 59 | As a writer , reviewer and professional artist I have accumulated a collection of over 40 videos . |
| 60 | Well when when the doctor saw him on a fortnight ago this Friday today , a fortnight ago today the doctor phoned the ward and said have you got a bed I 've got a man here who 's be who is between myself and my curry dinner time and you could be saving two people 's lives my life cos he was so hungry |