Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has heard of stressed executives who suffer peptic ulcers and ulcerative colitis . |
| 2 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 3 | Bonner said : ‘ Nothing has changed at Celtic . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 5 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 6 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 7 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 8 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 9 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 10 | You see I have lived in private rented accommodation with my mother in the late nineteen thirties . |
| 11 | ‘ Never would I have voted against dear Thomas . |
| 12 | However , this option , quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling , entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly . |
| 13 | Apart from witnessing the now infamous inscription Terribilis ist locus est ( ‘ This is a terrible place ’ ) , incised above the church porch , I had journeyed in vain . |
| 14 | I was glad to do this , for I had kept in close touch with his work and took a deep interest in it . |
| 15 | This was the first time in my life that I had lived in deep country , without easy access to shops , transport and people I knew . |
| 16 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 17 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 18 | I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire . |
| 19 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 20 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 21 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 22 | I had to alternate between different sizes to get the degree of control I wanted . |
| 23 | Despite my wealth of experience and my time as an instructor , I had become over confident in my own ability . |
| 24 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 25 | Dear friends , I had hoped in due course |
| 26 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 27 | But after I had waited in vain for six months , I lost hope , and felt low indeed . |
| 28 | I had travelled through remote and spectacular country among exciting , barely administered tribes , and had secured the record head of a much-prized quarry . |
| 29 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 30 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |