Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 2 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 4 | If someone has had an accident in their home , fallen and injured themselves or been taken ill , they may not be able to attract the attention of neighbours , passers-by or people who call at the door . |
| 5 | I 'd seen an accident the other day in town I 'd seen two and did you notice |
| 6 | It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know . |
| 7 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 8 | Where 's the corkscrew ? ’ and he 'd answered — dead straight — ‘ What do you want a corkscrew for ? ’ and so I 'd made an excuse and left quickly . |
| 9 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 10 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 11 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 12 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 13 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 14 | I 'd got an option from the firm and they were very good that way . |
| 15 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 16 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 17 | I 'd stuffed an Olympus Trip camera into one of my Reeboks and some spare film into the other . |
| 18 | ‘ If I 'd had an op on my knee that summer it might have been all right . |
| 19 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
| 20 | Although the despatch was written modestly , still the circumstances in themselves — my having recaptured an Indiaman , and earned , by boarding , a vessel of equal force to my own , and superior in men — had a very good appearance , and I certainly obtained greater credit than I really deserved . |
| 21 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 22 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 23 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 24 | Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home . |
| 25 | I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals . |
| 26 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 27 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 28 | I had heard an Irishman say ‘ Begorrah ’ and now I could die happy . |
| 29 | I had discovered an area of my life over which others had no control . |
| 30 | I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker . |