Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see when it i when I had , I 'd got one of thems done but you ca n't o help others out . |
| 2 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 3 | I 'd had enough of people I knew dying or being killed , and I did n't want to be there to see all my relatives being miserable and to listen to their bomb stories . |
| 4 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 5 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 6 | It seemed far more likely that , as Dr Gyggle suggested , I had become aware of Samuel Northcliffe separately and incorporated information I had gleaned from the newspapers into my fantasy . |
| 7 | I had become fond of Longfellow 's Saga of King Olaf : fond of it in a casual , shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms . |
| 8 | And I had read many of Miss Hayes-Drummond 's pieces in The Times — admirably rational , objective and sincere . |
| 9 | I had had enough of luxury and distractions with Helmut . |
| 10 | I had borrowed one of Norris 's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt . |
| 11 | ‘ Probably not so pure , but at least I 've stayed clear of triangles , ’ he retorted flatly . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen hundreds of corpses since then but that sight has always stuck in my mind . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen enough of places like that to last a lifetime . |
| 14 | I 've seen dozens of doctors and for all of them it is an enigma … |
| 15 | I 've seen more of life than the majority of people my age . |
| 16 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 17 | During all the years in television I suppose I 've done thousands of interviews . |
| 18 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 19 | As I said , I 've done dozens of talks now at various schools , but one that sticks in my mind is a private preparatory school for girls in Tavistock , where I was received like some sort of pop star ! |
| 20 | I 've done dozens of skies . |
| 21 | He said , I 've met dozens of women and girls like you . |
| 22 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 23 | I 've had enough of lies . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , that 's what I ca n't stand , the suffering , ’ said Shirley , jumping to her feet , her fifteen-year-old voice reasserting , boldly , frailly , the tones of elsewhere , of normality and new Birds Eye peas and modern kitchenettes , of television and hands fumbling inside brassières : ‘ I ca n't stand the suffering , I wo n't suffer , I 've had enough of suffering . ’ |
| 25 | I 've had enough of Captain Smollett . ’ |
| 26 | I 've had enough of freeloaders . |
| 27 | I 've had enough of men just thinking they can ride roughshod over … ’ |
| 28 | I 've spent hundreds of hours , more likely thousands , listening to sonar , asdics , hydrophones , but this is something quite new on me . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I 've got one of Peter 's |
| 30 | One board 's finished , another board is nearly finished , closed the food board , I 've got one of bones and skeleton . |