Example sentences of "[noun sg] i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder . |
| 2 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 5 | Of course I 've got a family ! |
| 6 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 7 | In that cell I 've got a formula , just multiply the number above by the number of the left . |
| 8 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 9 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 10 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 11 | Mummy I 've got a police one |
| 12 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 13 | Jane Hall had booked into the Riverside Hotel , she walked over to the reception desk and rang the bell , hello I 'm Jane Hall I 've booked a weekend stay here , ah yes Miss Hall if you would just like to sign here , here 's your key , your room is six floors up , third on the right , have a nice stay . |
| 14 | If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper |
| 15 | Now erm at the moment I 've got a lot to fit in |
| 16 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 17 | This evening I have attempted a contribution to the work by taking the Plowden propositions and suggesting that if they are true in theory they demand recognition in practice . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In despair , I told my husband I 'd bought a book on how to cure children 's sleep problems . |
| 20 | That day I had bought a fern , a modest enough plant but with bright , shiny leaves and an indestructible appearance . |
| 21 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By the use of the last phrase I have indicated a comparison that may possibly be drawn between Gandhi and Paul Tillich . |