Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have reached a momentous decision , a joyous decision , and I 've brought you here to tell you about it . ’ |
| 2 | For years now I have conducted a personal campaign , always asking if I can have , for example , a five or three amp fuse instead of the one I am given , a 13 amp . |
| 3 | He created Apollo , which I have conducted a great deal . |
| 4 | ‘ I have sent an 11-page dossier to Patrick Chillery of the disqualification unit asking that the two be disqualified under the terms of the Disqualification of Directors Act 1986 , ’ said Mr Bell . |
| 5 | But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage . |
| 6 | I have fitted a complete set of new springs with Monroe GaD Magnum 4 x 4 shock absorbers , but when viewed from the rear , the vehicle has a definite lean to the left . |
| 7 | I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded . |
| 8 | As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer . |
| 9 | It would be unfair to say that I have formed a low view of the Foreign Office ; rather I have formed the view that Foreign Office activities have in some way become totally disconnected from the human race . |
| 10 | ‘ Twigs and I have formed a little company called Mask to get several projects off the ground , ’ Leigh says . |
| 11 | Though nearly fifty years later I have followed a similar route to Orwell 's , his book is all that we share . |
| 12 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 13 | On the very rare occasion I have fished a single caster on a size 20 hook . |
| 14 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 15 | It will keep for a while , at least until I have recorded a little visit I made after I finished writing my life of Elsie and the episode concerning the Butcher . |
| 16 | SIR — At last I have achieved a life-long ambition and made a citizen 's arrest . |
| 17 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that I have lost a young constituent to one Ecstasy tablet ? |
| 18 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 19 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 20 | Steven Isserlis has said that he needs ‘ a safety net not to have to worry whether I 've ever played this or that bar properly during the session and also someone who knows the kind of musical personality I am and whether I have covered a particular stretch of music the way I would want . |
| 21 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 23 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 24 | To show you what I mean , I have selected a few names at random from my local telephone directory and listed them , together with the image which sprang to my mind ( although yours might be completely different ) . |
| 25 | Ever since then I have felt a terrible claustrophobia in a small theatre . |
| 26 | Instead , I have inherited a yawning deficit . |
| 27 | However , although your replies are often thoughtful and considered , I have detected a worrying trend of late . |
| 28 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 29 | I have isolated a specific discoursal site where deixis can be discerned operating . |
| 30 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |