Example sentences of "[noun] i have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness .
2 In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools .
3 It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur .
4 ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’
5 Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home .
6 When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered .
7 And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father .
8 No wonder I had a fat face .
9 and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that
10 There was sliding down the banisters , toys left on the stairs , a new untidiness , a quickening of life and , sometimes , in the hurdy-gurdy I had a strange sense of ‘ presences ’ , two other children , silent , well-behaved .
11 I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill .
12 The toilets and bathrooms and showers were at the end of the hall on the second floor , and from my window I had a splendid view of the cathedral , whose Gothic , Renaissance and baroque styles mingled perfectly in the dark-rose-and-amber stone to give it almost the appearance of some natural rock formation .
13 It was empty , but at the corner where the lamplight was reflected in Robson 's shop window I had a brief impression of a fleeing form and a faint echo of laughter .
14 Without my shoes I had an obvious limp .
15 ‘ From day one at Tottenham I had the opposite feeling , even when I was in the team . ’
16 One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper .
17 In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds .
18 For a moment I had a ridiculous sense of anti-climax .
19 When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit .
20 Good job I had a good pair of drawers on .
21 You have the hard job I have the easy job .
22 hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds .
23 When I got the news of the assassination I had a heavy foreboding that U Saw was involved , and this indeed proved to be the case .
24 After 5 weeks I had a small nitrite reading and there was no trace of ammonia .
25 In truth I have a slight horror of a route becoming ‘ The ( Something ) Way ’ , as if no other way was possible .
26 In my observatory I have a 39-cm reflector , with which I can often use a power of × 600 .
27 ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’
28 As the director I have the big advantage that I know all the melodies .
29 As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip .
30 There is an expression , ‘ the unassailable complacency of the mother of eight ’ , and with Wilson I had the unassailable confidence of someone five feet eight inches high in the presence of a man she knows instinctively to admire tall women .
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