Example sentences of "i have [adv] have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather had the people I can survive with one person , one person down |
| 2 | Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby . |
| 3 | I 'd better have the potty just in case . |
| 4 | ‘ I had rather have the certainties of middle-age , ma'am . ’ |
| 5 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 6 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 7 | I had always had the sense of a ‘ presence ’ . |
| 8 | I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine . |
| 9 | Manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ Terry is one of the best professionals I 've ever had the pleasure to work with . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you must be the most irritating man I 've ever had the misfortune to meet ! |
| 11 | ‘ You are the most obstinate , stubborn , pigheaded man I 've ever had the misfortune to come across . ’ |
| 12 | He 's got to be the meanest son of a bitch I 've ever had the misfortune to work for … |
| 13 | No cos we was my friend Pat said to me oh she said , cos everyone have always come up to my house Christmas night , I 've always had the mess and that , she said oh she said , cos we 've got a house now come down to me , I said oh great , I can clean up and every Boxing morning it 's always been the same hangover , fucking |
| 14 | ‘ Because my family were lawyers and self-employed , I 've always had the feeling that I would rather hold my future in my own hands than have it in somebody else 's . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never had the honour of being elected . |
| 16 | I 've never had the opportunity to attend one before . |
| 17 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 18 | But there is n't anybody I 've never had the luck to know anybody . |
| 19 | Thought as well , I 've never had the chance to go , I 'd like to go |
| 20 | I 've never had the gall to go and |
| 21 | Well no , I , I 've never had the gall |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , I 've never had the money to feel settled before . |
| 23 | ‘ I can assure you I 've never had the misfortune to meet your criminally motivated friend , but might I suggest that if you 're going to be paranoid about your picture you put it in a bank vault for safety ? ’ |
| 24 | I 've only had the boat since the fifteenth , and before that I was- ’ A quick glance at me ! |
| 25 | I HAVE just had the Ford Mondeo for a full week 's test and the longer the week went on the more I liked the car . |
| 26 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 27 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
| 28 | I have only had the machine for six weeks now , but try to spend at least one hour every day with it . |
| 29 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 30 | I have now had the opportunity to study that judgment and I have taken further legal advice . |