Example sentences of "i have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |
32 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
33 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
34 | How did you guess I 'd got a secret plan ? ’ |
35 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
36 | Everybody in the audience expects to hear a certian solo in each song , and so would I if I 'd spent a small fortune on a ticket . ’ |
37 | You then followed me to the ticket reservation counter , chatted up the girl afterwards , found I 'd booked a Business-Class seat to Brussels , did the same yourself and waited outside the final departure lounge until you saw me boarding . ’ |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | I 'd had a good week . |
42 | 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 . |
43 | 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 … |
44 | ‘ 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 . |
45 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
46 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
47 | But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee . |
48 | 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 . |
49 | 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 . |
50 | If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’ |
51 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
52 | 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 |
53 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
54 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
55 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
56 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
57 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
58 | And I 'd have shot myself if we lost because I 'd wasted a good chance just before the goal . ’ |
59 | But before I 'd managed a single moan , Charlie pre-empted me . |
60 | ‘ I would have kissed you long ago if I 'd known a simple kiss could have so miraculous an effect . ’ |