Example sentences of "i have [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
2 | It was still early , and the rain I 'd heard forecast the previous night was looking about ready to drop . |
3 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else . |
4 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
5 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
6 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
7 | I had lain awake the better part of the night . |
8 | After about three months I had managed to fill the entire cash book with this sort of mundane rubbish . |
9 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
10 | I had to keep checking the only one I had to keep checking was Dick 's . |
11 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |
12 | The right hon. Gentleman is as wrong about that as he was in his assertion during the recent debate that I had refused to meet the regional Sports Council chairmen , which he knows to be untrue . |
13 | In my statement to the House of 15 January , I explained th steps that I had taken to improve the first five environmentally sensitive areas designated in 1987 , my plans for reviewing this year those ESAs designated in 1988 , including any boundary adjustments , and my timetable for designating a further 12 areas this year and in 1993 . |
14 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
15 | That I l I 've forgotten to bring the other work . |
16 | I 've been in and out of places , I 've had to learn the hard way . |
17 | ‘ I 've come to use the fair as promotion , and I think everyone is returning to this idea after the end of the bonanza period . ’ |
18 | I 've come to win the British Open ! ’ |
19 | ‘ Alison 's got a very individual style , so I 've learnt to expect the unexpected , I thought she looked fabulous . ’ |
20 | I suppose I 've got to the age when I 've started to find the past interesting . ’ |
21 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |
22 | I 've got my life to live and it 's in this house , and I say again , you left me a legacy and I 've got to manage the best way I can . |
23 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
24 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
25 | On the hotel the sequence was I 've got to do the first-fix plumbing before I do the second-fix plumbing . |
26 | So I 've got to take the four one megs out and put four four megs in . |
27 | I 've got to , I 've got to admit the second half they were lucky our goalie produced four brilliant saves in about three minutes |
28 | I 've got to phone the Inland Revenue tomorrow and ask them what the maximum |
29 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
30 | Well I 've got to change the complete unit . |