Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to have [det] " in BNC.

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1 I got to have some beef in that role .
2 I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end .
3 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
4 I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’
5 In the next few weeks , I began to have some very interesting conversations with the King .
6 But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’
7 After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory .
8 The managers I spoke to have both taken up positions in this particular store because previous management were not competent in their jobs .
9 I also need a formal letter in original from as owner of the vehicle that I am the permitted registered keeper and user — in the same way as I had to have such a letter from .
10 I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase .
11 I had to have that fish .
12 So like , you can imagine I had to have all the strap completely undone so like the , the buckle was like down here !
13 I had to have those three tees when I walked off the 18th .
14 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
15 I had to have this exact guitar , ’ he claims .
16 I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't .
17 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
18 ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see .
19 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
20 Four months later , I had to have another operation for cancer — of the lymph glands — and still had trouble with my back .
21 I had to have another look .
22 And instead I wished to have this ’ ( laying his hand on my shoulder ) ‘ … this young girl .
23 I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’
24 I wanted to have some hyper copies of her voice .
25 You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked .
26 As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her .
27 She seemed to have such endless resources of anger , so many obviously right , sincerely held opinions .
28 She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless …
29 She seemed to have more energy as a result , but she developed nettle-rash and a vaginal discharge , which turned out to-be due to thrush ( Candida infection ) .
30 Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule .
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