Example sentences of "[verb] i have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't think I had a chance of getting a job but Workington took the gamble with me and I want to repay them .
2 ‘ But I did n't really think I had a chance because I have n't acted before , ’ she said .
3 I do n't think I had a Christmas present all my blessed life .
4 Erm I , I do n't think I have a problem saying well actually I deal on er i if someone said erm if you said I play with Joe Snooks you 'd say Joe Snooks , that 's interesting Joe 's a , a very good client of mine
5 I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble
6 ‘ You mean I have a choice as to whether I stay on or not ? ’
7 er I mean I have a bit of a problem with him sort of going in and identifying all these fourteen ten tenets if you like of er what er the peasants have actually done because I do n't think
8 ‘ You mean I have a brain , ’ Polly flashed him her sweetest smile .
9 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
10 I mean I have a couple of ideas .
11 I mean I have a lot of people come to the vicarage and the churchyard , particularly people who have got alcohol problems .
12 Lee thinks I have a problem , I can tell .
13 ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said .
14 ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’
15 if she has I wished I had a job like that when I were young by George , going abroad and
16 As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me .
17 I 'd forgotten I had a professional to impress . ’
18 I 'd forgotten I had a husband .
19 When people are upset , I always say I have a headache and that takes their mind off their troubles .
20 I mentioned I had a daughter , Julia .
21 It was in the pleasure area , as usual , that I found I had a problem .
22 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
23 I found I had a code . ’
24 And I found I had a room all to myself .
25 When I resumed my studies I found I had a lot of catching up to do . ’
26 I did n't want my parents to know I had a boyfriend : they would not have approved because they would have felt I was too young .
27 I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there .
28 Very often , when I take a walk along the river in the close season and see a shoal of chub sliding in and out of the streamer weed , or merely lying near to the surface , ready to suck in a floating insect , I imagine I have a rod with me and I want to catch one of those chub .
29 He says I have a feeling that Irma was a special case .
30 ‘ Did I feel I had a point to prove ? ’ pondered Hastings .
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