Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 2 | After I 'd spent the last two days setting it up ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 4 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 5 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 6 | I 've played the last three or four games for the reserves , which we 've won . |
| 7 | I 've played the last three or four games for the reserves , which we 've won . |
| 8 | that 's that for when I 've done the first ten tapes . |
| 9 | I 've worked the last five , get out |
| 10 | I 've had the last two , that 's the last couple of words you wan na put . |
| 11 | But I 've put the first hot foments on the two affected parts , ’ I explained . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 14 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 15 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 17 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 18 | No she said I 've got the second biggest co cock I mean that she 'd ever seen . |
| 19 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 20 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 21 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 22 | He 's named the same side which has started the last three games . |
| 23 | in these 0.3 seconds , skiers and the trade are already complaining about the ‘ pattern ’ of winter weather which has tarnished the last three seasons ( 0.03 seconds of the earthly year ) . |
| 24 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 25 | At a rally attended by hundreds of Labour supporters from the arts , showbusiness and sport , he said that a Labour government would be in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years . |
| 26 | He pledged Labour in power would willingly listen to the voice of the people , in stark contrast to the ‘ vanity and self-interest ’ which had characterised the last 13 years of Conservative rule . |
| 27 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 28 | This followed my 1981 legislation which had introduced the first road-safety measures for fifteen years and was used ( as I knew it would be ) to introduce compulsory seat-belts . |
| 29 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 30 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |