Example sentences of "i have have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’
2 I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown .
3 I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred .
4 I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path .
5 I 'd had a good week .
6 I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section .
7 Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain …
8 ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything .
9 I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her .
10 ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’
11 But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee .
12 I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully .
13 In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses .
14 If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’
15 It was as if I 'd had a bad dream .
16 He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was
17 True , I 'd had the occasional setback , like proposing to Tony Kessler when I was four .
18 Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma .
19 Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated .
20 ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus .
21 Do I have to have a Compact job ?
22 I always knew I was adopted , so why could n't I have had the whole truth ?
23 Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo .
24 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
25 My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass .
26 Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary .
27 My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father .
28 My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed .
29 For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it .
30 In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share .
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