Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 2 | Hugh Jones has decided to step down from the chairman 's seat and the board has asked me if I 'd be willing to take over from him . ’ |
| 3 | He then announced that the courts had found me innocent and therefore I would shortly be released . |
| 4 | We did n't sight of her once , even though the vet had told me it could be an hour before the drug took effect . |
| 5 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 6 | There 's a meeting on and the chairman has asked me to get you up here to the boardroom . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd ‘ sat-in ’ for Anne Robinson on her morning radio show and the experience had winded me badly . |
| 8 | The experience has taught me a lot , not least about Margaret Thatcher 's single achievement in changing the class contours of British politics . |
| 9 | ‘ None of the calls have hit me between the eyes so far as the vital piece of information , but I 'm still hopeful that what we need may be in there , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Strangely , it was as though the wave had chosen me more than I had chosen it . |
| 11 | The researchers had given me an electric thermometer , a stalk of red plastic , to put in my mouth . |
| 12 | The vicar had asked me in the war to do this and erm I was secretary of that and I used to say er , you know you could only do so much because we was n't like housewives today . |
| 13 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes the priest holds services here — I think on the Feast of St Finian , ’ the driver had told me . |
| 15 | ‘ After I 'd fed the hens , I could n't get out — the sheep had penned me in . |
| 16 | The noise has given me a head . ’ |
| 17 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 18 | When the truck had dumped me and my kit-bag at the Guard Room and I had a chance to look around me , I spied in the middle distance a cluster of substantial looking buildings . |
| 19 | He says the course has helped me get to grips with the kids otherwise they 'd run wild . |
| 20 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 21 | The wraith had caught me up . |
| 22 | The cement floor was cold underfoot and the water colder , so I washed quickly and jumped out on to the carpet , gratefully rubbing myself with a towel which the Sheikha had given me . |
| 23 | And I hoped the Corporal had noticed I 'd said ‘ you can get to high ground ’ and not ‘ we can get to high ground ’ . |
| 24 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 25 | ‘ The lads have made me feel very welcome , which is important . |
| 26 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 27 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 28 | It may cost me my job , but so far the PM has backed me . ’ |
| 29 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |
| 30 | I have a headache and am concerned that the wind has dehydrated me ; it is so important to pour liquid down in the Arctic , especially in winter . |