Example sentences of "[verb] i have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd love eating I had roast parsnips , brussel sprouts , carrots , and boiled and baked alaska , and it was really nice . |
2 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
3 | ‘ I know lobster is extortionately expensive here but you know I have good vibes about this contract … ’ |
4 | And what I 'd really like you know I have little things that bug you to death ? |
5 | I suppose I have high standards but some others are as good as me . |
6 | I personally find I have great fun . |
7 | I feel I have unfinished business with you said Jay , amazed that she could use such an adult phrase , when alone , her mouth sagged and stretched and gasped with momma , momma , the pain shrieked from her navel , she even sucked her thumb in the hope that do-it-yourself primal therapy would ease something . |
8 | I felt I had good cause . |
9 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
10 | Knew I had elementary skill . |
11 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
12 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
13 | I thought I had genuine friends at the Oval after six and a half years . |
14 | I thought I had other books ? |
15 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
16 | And I I think I had great admiration for the er in particular for the the woman who was the erm president of the tenants association . |
17 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
18 | ‘ I think I have good reason to feel sorry for myself ! ’ |
19 | All in all , I think I have good reason to hate her . |
20 | I also think I have good people around me . |
21 | Do I have sufficient management skills available within my area of responsibility to maximise the contribution of a new recruit ? |
22 | Strangely enough , at no time did I have real doubts that I would be elected , and this determined my public attitude during the three successive ballots that were necessary . |
23 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
24 | Claire said , ‘ I wish I had long hair . |
25 | ‘ I wish I had blue eyes and fair hair like him ! |
26 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
27 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
28 | ‘ He claims I have unfair advantages . ’ |
29 | He knows I have extra time off owing to me because my last holiday period was cut short when one of the staff became ill . |
30 | You notice I have slight eczema on the palms of my hands . |