Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to have a [noun] " 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 | I tried to have a word with the Cashier but he was n't talking . |
| 4 | " 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 . " |
| 5 | I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be . |
| 6 | I seemed to have a thing about people with the name 's A yeah , beginning with A |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Flipping hell , are n't I allowed to have a bit ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I arranged to have a bath . |
| 12 | I decided to have a rest , then visit No. 6 Commando . |
| 13 | I decided to have a year off myself and played a bare minimum to remind myself of which end of the club to hold . |
| 14 | They were so beautiful that I decided to have a go at growing them . |
| 15 | After years of thinking that I could not draw or paint , I decided to have a go . |
| 16 | You know I , I 've got a big laurel and it was coming right over what we call the roundabout so I decided to have a go at it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 19 | I decided to have a farm sale after Uncle went , and put up all the livestock for auction . |
| 20 | ‘ So I decided to have a haircut . |
| 21 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 22 | I 've got to look at it today , I meant to have a look . |
| 23 | Before I went , though , I managed to have a word on the side with the lass . |
| 24 | So , I went to have a shower , took my time over it , shaved and dressed again . |
| 25 | So , round I went to have a look . |
| 26 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |
| 27 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 28 | So while I was there I went to have a look at the erm the microwaves for Carl . |
| 29 | I went to have a cardiogram and there is a guy hiding behind the curtains ! |
| 30 | I went to have a go last time and missed it . |