Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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61 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
62 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
63 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
64 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
65 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
66 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
67 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
68 | I had imagined a battered tomb of Dame Alyse Compton , or a fine eighteenth-century tablet sacred to the memory of William Compton-Burnett and Hepzibah his wife , and lodge gates surmounted by heraldic monsters bearing the achievements of ( quarterly 1 and 4 ) Burnett , and Compton ( 2 and 3 ) . |
69 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
70 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |
71 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
72 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
73 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
74 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
75 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
76 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
77 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
78 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
79 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
80 | ‘ Terry and I had written a six-part series The Complete and Utter History of Britain for LWT . |
81 | I had found myself reacting more and more against the linguistic/logical positivist approach ; and , shortly after its appearance in 1936 , I had written a sustained diatribe against A. J. Ayer 's Language , Truth and Logic ( 1936 ) . |
82 | I had written a learned book , Architrave and Archetype , a thesis linking human aspiration with human-designed structures , cathedrals in particular . |
83 | While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door . |
84 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
85 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
86 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
87 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
88 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
89 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
90 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |