Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 2 | So I determined I got to have a go . |
| 3 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 4 | I tried to have a word with the Cashier but he was n't talking . |
| 5 | " Oh , it was agreed earlier that Mr Gerard would only need one of us to assist after the coffee was served , so I pretended to have a headache . " |
| 6 | I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be . |
| 7 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 8 | I seemed to have a thing about people with the name 's A yeah , beginning with A |
| 9 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 10 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 12 | Just by chance I happened to have the opportunity of watching yesterday morning and found it a prayerful , joyful experience with so many of the parishioners of very generation actively involved . |
| 13 | I happened to have an extra ticket for the recital last night … |
| 14 | I vowed to have no more to do with her but thought I ought to return her shoes and her key , so I snatched Frankie 's comic and tried to persuade him to come with me . |
| 15 | Flipping hell , are n't I allowed to have a bit ? |
| 16 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |
| 17 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 18 | I arranged to have a bath . |
| 19 | But in the morning , after sleeping on those terms of the ‘ contract ’ , I decided to have no part of it . |
| 20 | I decided to have a rest , then visit No. 6 Commando . |
| 21 | They were so beautiful that I decided to have a go at growing them . |
| 22 | I decided to have a farm sale after Uncle went , and put up all the livestock for auction . |
| 23 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 24 | After years of thinking that I could not draw or paint , I decided to have a go . |
| 25 | ‘ So I decided to have a haircut . |
| 26 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 27 | I decided to have a year off myself and played a bare minimum to remind myself of which end of the club to hold . |
| 28 | I decided to have a clear out and throw out the same number of old pairs . |
| 29 | On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look . |
| 30 | Because of the difficulty of leaving the children , my wife and I decided to have a short break away on our own this year . |