Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] i have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 2 | The Escort has been one of Britain 's top-sellers for many years and having tested various examples of the latest in the range I have to give a curate 's egg verdict . |
| 3 | Now erm at the moment I 've got a lot to fit in |
| 4 | Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . . |
| 5 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 6 | In the example I 've shown a simple three chord B dorian progression ( Bm , A , E ) with each of the chords followed by a couple of double stops . |
| 7 | After a spell in the sauna I had to make a choice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Towards the summit I had to cross a couple of snowfields , and there was a final rock-climb to get to the top . |
| 10 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 11 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 12 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 13 | The reason I 've used a highlighter or changed colour is that now that , the colour sticks out does n't it ? |
| 14 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
| 15 | On the strength of the discussion I have drafted a supplementary response to the WTB which I enclose for your information . |
| 16 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 17 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 18 | I flash upon my own family ; the way I have to think a moment before deciding who to include in my family , whether to include the step-parents or the siblings on my father 's side whom I would not know should I see them on the street , the hastiness of Mom and Larry on Sunday swirls between galleries and sushi , untapered by excess or sentimentality , busy with books and foreign films and the Sunday supplement of the New York Times , the wisdom of Ivy Leagues and schedules too dense to live by , to wake by , to sleep and breathe by . |
| 19 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 20 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 21 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 22 | I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep . |
| 23 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 24 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 27 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 30 | Well when when the doctor saw him on a fortnight ago this Friday today , a fortnight ago today the doctor phoned the ward and said have you got a bed I 've got a man here who 's be who is between myself and my curry dinner time and you could be saving two people 's lives my life cos he was so hungry |