Example sentences of "[vb past] i have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 2 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 3 | ‘ Now look here , ’ said Otley , ‘ you asked me to have a bite with you and that venison does smell good . ’ |
| 4 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing — except that your mother asked me to have a look at her wedding outfit before I go . |
| 6 | As the ship sailed away , I realized I had no idea where I was . |
| 7 | I realized I 'd no experience of organizing a memorial party and did n't know anybody who had . |
| 8 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 9 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 10 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 12 | However an X-ray at 38 weeks revealed I had an enormous pelvis so a relatively normal birth was on the cards . |
| 13 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 14 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 15 | I mentioned I had a daughter , Julia . |
| 16 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 17 | I found I had a code . ’ |
| 18 | And I found I had a room all to myself . |
| 19 | It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem . |
| 20 | When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 22 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 23 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 24 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 25 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 26 | ‘ I never believed I had the front . |
| 27 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 28 | When the day came I had no time to think . |
| 29 | They assumed I had a doctorate or something . ’ |
| 30 | We spotted our first reindeer lying down in a hollow by the roadside some distance ahead and , as I had a telephoto lens on the camera , the others encouraged me to have a go at stalking it . |