Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 3 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 4 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 5 | And having smoked the odd joint I do n't really feel |
| 6 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 7 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 8 | I 've forgotten the scruffy intellectual I once was . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that I 've seen the finished copy I 'm delighted that I encouraged Susan to write it , ’ said Mrs Major . |
| 10 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 11 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 12 | So I got some of them velour curtains but I 've got the wrong size I 'll have to take them back |
| 13 | Partly I bad believed for reasons which were extraneous , and I had used the emotional commitment I had found in this to cover for a lack of genuine commitment . |
| 14 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 15 | Erm I 've found the original packet I lost . |
| 16 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 17 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 18 | Although I have passed the allotted span I am , in my own opinion , still that same foreigner . |
| 19 | Once I have achieved the correct balance I have completed the compositional structure . |