Example sentences of "i have [verb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you |
| 2 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 3 | ‘ At first I thought I 'd hooked a tree because it felt so solid . |
| 4 | I prayed as I 'd done a year before when Abed had attacked Bri . |
| 5 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 6 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 7 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 8 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |
| 9 | Well , in comes Alf , with 'is belly full of old and mild as usual , and asks me why do I look as if I 'd lost a pound and found thruppence . |
| 10 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 11 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 12 | I thought I 'd a had a , I thought I 'd had a problem but I , I injured myself as well . |
| 13 | Another 48 Hours was done out of fear because Harlem Nights was the first time I 'd had a movie that flopped . |
| 14 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 15 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 16 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 17 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 18 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 19 | I had detected a smell and taste of tobacco — and I knew she enjoyed , among other things , a furtive drag at a Woodbine . |
| 20 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |
| 21 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 22 | I had gained a poet but was losing a lover , perhaps the last I would ever know . |
| 23 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 24 | In fact , he is not a great motivator through the actual force of his personality , and if I had to name a weakness that would be it . |
| 25 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
| 26 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 27 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 28 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 29 | If I had bought a hammer or a chisel |
| 30 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |