Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 2 | ‘ I had wanted to do a charity fashion show two weeks ago , but my bosses would n't allow it . |
| 3 | I had planned to take a train there ; to head south and see more of South America . |
| 4 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
| 5 | I had planned to have a word with my Maker before walking on , but I could n't get in . |
| 6 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 7 | Do n't tell Edgar or Catherine this , but I had hoped to find a friend at Wuthering Heights , someone to support me against Heathcliff . |
| 8 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 9 | But I do know that by midsummer I had started to write a love-story . |
| 10 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 11 | I had agreed to do a study of the pastoral care system for the school as the ‘ price ’ for this freedom to roam . |
| 12 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 13 | My whole family background has been responsible , in a way , for , by virtue of the example of my parents , for my distress at witnessing prejudice , whether it be colour , or religious , or whatever , and intolerance , and so on , and I 've wanted to do a subject about South Africa for a long time , and this was enhanced erm obviously when I made Ghandi because , as you know , the first twenty odd years of Ghandi 's life |
| 14 | ‘ I 've wanted to do a marathon for a long time , but it would be silly to run one without putting it to use . |
| 15 | I 've arranged to borrow a Fieseler Stork from the Luftwaffe . |
| 16 | I sit and think how I 've struggled to get a home together , and within a couple of minutes it 's all smashed up . |
| 17 | ‘ I make no judgments on man or woman , perhaps because I make no judgments on myself — or my wife I 've managed to preserve a friendship between husband and wife living thousands of miles apart , and that 's nae a bad achievement . ’ |
| 18 | I think we should have , I , I 've borrowed , I 've managed to borrow a set of change as well |
| 19 | As I say , I 'll get it back to you just as soon as I 've managed to make a copy of it . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm using it for Tottenham fair on third , second or third of er July , but only because I 've managed to get a P C enthusiastic about doing it and he 's gon na man it for the day . |
| 21 | Then he said , ‘ I 've managed to get a sprinkling of young men , and there 's one in particular I 'd like you to meet . ’ |
| 22 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 23 | I 've had to get a padlock to lock it away . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've come to make a complaint . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've come to discuss a deal I 'd like to do with you , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've started to look a bit like her now . ’ |
| 27 | years and years I 've tried to get a pen I was |
| 28 | I 've tried to make a start already . |
| 29 | For example , a neighbour may ask ‘ what are you doing ? ’ and the elder can say ‘ I 've got to spend a penny , it 's these new tablets ’ , or ‘ I 'm going into town for some firelighters ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got to see a man about a job , ’ she said . |