Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it .
2 But I say , the , I 'd heard such a lot of the Guild and the Guild 's influence was in Walsall Wood I think primarily , as I 'm always telling the women today , because they were so interested in the village and you got , they were local councillors , magistrates people you went to for advice .
3 And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing .
4 I decided I would carry the six-pound loss myself rather than admit to him I 'd made such a fool of myself
5 and I 'd lost half a stone in weight .
6 Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up .
7 I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now .
8 I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
9 How could I have done such a thing ?
10 How could I have done such a thing ?
11 ‘ Do I have to get drunk every night just to keep you company ?
12 K. R. In that time , I had to do all the side streets , milking padlocks .
13 I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad .
14 ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline .
15 Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see .
16 And that was all copper , and I had to clean that every morning with a kind of paste ; and to do all the stairs and landings , and the rooms downstairs .
17 In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards .
18 I also need a formal letter in original from as owner of the vehicle that I am the permitted registered keeper and user — in the same way as I had to have such a letter from .
19 So like , you can imagine I had to have all the strap completely undone so like the , the buckle was like down here !
20 I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it .
21 Well I had to come all the way back did n't I .
22 Yeah but I 've got ta make so I had to come all the way home !
23 But er by the time I was ready to retire , I had planted all the half park .
24 Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order .
25 If I had to face such a situation again , I 'd be very careful if there was a storm around .
26 I had to walk all the way to Magnus 's house in the dark because I did n't have any money .
27 So I had to walk all the way . ’
28 The speaker is typically less explicit than the writer : I 'm so tired ( because ) I had to walk all the way home .
29 I had to walk all the way round there in these shoes , they look good but believe me they 're not meant for walking , and in the end she 's not even home .
30 ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’
  Next page