Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if I 'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us . |
| 2 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 3 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 4 | I 'd forgotten a point in the vid adverts for Balbazian steel . |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'd had a drink in the Club , that 's where I heard . |
| 6 | Last time I let you talk me into having a go , I felt as if I 'd had a session in a tumble dryer . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been me pencil if I 'd had a pencil in me hand . |
| 8 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 9 | On the way back from moving the sheep , I felt as if I 'd had a night in the pub , started feeling very wheezy and , Oh this is good . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure you do , but Kitty must n't ever know that I 'd had a hand in it . ’ |
| 11 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 12 | After all , I had imagined a future in Kumla security prison . |
| 13 | I had strained a muscle in my back , one of my toes looked septic , my finger was worse , and I was fairly certain that one of my jacket crowns was loose . |
| 14 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 15 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 16 | Soon after my mother had died , I had noticed a gap in the familiar contours of the furniture in the room leading out of the sitting-room — it was where the shop had once been , entered then via the yard gate and a large open porch . |
| 17 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 18 | I claimed no personal credit for that , since , like most girls , I could always tell when I had lit a spark in a man at sight , and vice versa . |
| 19 | If you are worried about stress , the Library can help with books on managing stress and other aspects of your daily working life ( well , I had to get a plug in somewhere ! ) . |
| 20 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 21 | I dropped to the floor , hopeful I had found a gap in the defences , and stopped dead . |
| 22 | It would have been a consolation if I had found a mother in Mme Guérigny . |
| 23 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 24 | Erm I 've expressed a view in my written submissions that I think the emphasis solely on rail erm access i is unfortunate and perhaps should be widened to er public transport generally , obviously rail access plus rail transport has a particular type of usage . |
| 25 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
| 26 | If I 've touched a chord in any way , then that 's gravy and that 's great . ’ |
| 27 | 'Can you dance ? ’ 'Well , I 've done a bit in the bath . ’ |
| 28 | You do C D space put , so you 're pointing at that directory , and then if you do M D ninety three , M D space ninety three , and then I 've created a sub-directory in ninety three , below this directory . |
| 29 | I 've eaten a bit in middle . |
| 30 | Well I 've made a start in my painting it 's |