Example sentences of "i have [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 2 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 4 | I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more . |
| 5 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 6 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 7 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 8 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 9 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |
| 10 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 11 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 12 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 13 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 14 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 15 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 16 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 17 | ( I had dreaded the other meetings with her too , had n't I. Yes I had . ) |
| 18 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 19 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 20 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 21 | I had opened the louvred shutters and let in the real sun . |
| 22 | All my life I had chosen the soft options : good times , good company , good fun . |
| 23 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 24 | Quite evidently when I had performed the various therapies I had n't performed them properly . |
| 25 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 26 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 27 | I 've lost the flipping names again ! |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Come to my dinner party ’ , and she said ‘ Why not ? ’ , and she said , ‘ Beuno will be here and the Molesworth are coming , and I 've asked the two girls who are staying at Ty Fach . ’ |
| 29 | And I 've disabled the Tertiary Controls , of course . |
| 30 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |