Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 3 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 4 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 5 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 6 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 7 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 8 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 9 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 10 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 11 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
| 12 | But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee . |
| 13 | I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully . |
| 14 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 15 | If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’ |
| 16 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 17 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 18 | True , I 'd had the occasional setback , like proposing to Tony Kessler when I was four . |
| 19 | Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma . |
| 20 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 21 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 22 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 23 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 24 | I happened to have an extra ticket for the recital last night … |
| 25 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 26 | Because of the difficulty of leaving the children , my wife and I decided to have a short break away on our own this year . |
| 27 | Because of the difficulty of leaving the children , my wife and I decided to have a short break away on our own this year . |
| 28 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 29 | The people I knew had a terrific dread of it , and they very rightly dreaded it . |
| 30 | The Kigoi I saw had the added attraction of red eyes ( not essential , but certainly a plus point ) . |