Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 3 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 4 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 5 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 6 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 8 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
| 9 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 10 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 11 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 12 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 14 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 15 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 16 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 17 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 18 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 19 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 20 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 21 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 22 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 23 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 24 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
| 25 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 26 | I had come home a day early . |
| 27 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 28 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 29 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 30 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |