Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |
| 2 | It was heavy to get on board singlehanded , but I 'd worked out a good method of lifting it with a spare halliard fitted with a simple purchase . |
| 3 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 4 | I had separated out a whole slot for an over-60s magazine , Years Ahead . |
| 5 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 6 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 7 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 8 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 9 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 11 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 12 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 13 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 16 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've taken over a local building firm which has unfortunately gone belly-up , ’ Vitor told her , ‘ and included among their assets is a plot of a sizeable number of acres which encompasses your property . ’ |
| 19 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 20 | In view of the interest shown in the last issue of the Journal , No. 11 , on the Liverpool Overhead Railway tickets , I have dug out a few more interesting examples for the 12th issue . |
| 21 | In the meantime , I have set up a three foot tank with a mature filter , coral gravel and rockwork ready for the fry . |
| 22 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 23 | The minster leads into the largely undisturbed Georgian town centre , which has taken on a new lease of life under the guidance of the local Civic Society . |
| 24 | Hi-Tech and more sleekly designed kitchens look good with white tiled floors whether ceramic or vinyl , but again you could use cork and vinyl , or composition tiles or even linoleum which has taken on a new lease of life now that people have realised how well it can look inlaid with other colours . |
| 25 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 26 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |
| 27 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 28 | Those schools which had built up a good resource collection appeared to have allocated additional capitation to the school library or to have raised extra funds from other sources . |
| 29 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 30 | Yet with the new season have come new strains which have opened up a fundamental debate about its future . |