Example sentences of "i have [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |
| 2 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 3 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 4 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 5 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 6 | Well that 's what he said oh no when he went to sleep I did I 'd done about a page this is what I read out , I went Professor Plop and the Time Machine . |
| 7 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 8 | I 'd struggled through a freelance career using a wonderful old black upright Imperial typewriter , the kind hammered manically by Jack ( ‘ Cigarette me ! ’ ) |
| 9 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
| 10 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 11 | I 'd thought of a course of Lenten addresses . ’ |
| 12 | A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’ |
| 13 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
| 14 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
| 15 | No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ? |
| 16 | She told you I 'd left with a bag . |
| 17 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 18 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 19 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 20 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 21 | I fingered Jo 's credit cards , which I 'd slipped into a trouser pocket . |
| 22 | What would I have done with a mother who smothered me in love ? ’ |
| 23 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 24 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 25 | Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue . |
| 26 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 27 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 28 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 29 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 30 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |