Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 2 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 3 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 6 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 7 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 8 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 9 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 13 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 16 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 17 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 18 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 19 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 21 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 22 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 23 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes ! |
| 28 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 29 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |