Example sentences of "[conj] i have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 2 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 3 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 4 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 5 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 6 | His feathers grew back although I had a feeling he was never quite the same — he looked , kind of , embarrassed ? |
| 7 | I did n't box , although I had a lot of fights at school . |
| 8 | As for the left-handed tremolo , well , it 's a matter of taste , although I 've a feeling that this feature might prevent the SRV overcoming its strong artist connection and becoming a popular guitar in its own right , like the Clapton Strat has . |
| 9 | Although I have a brand new petrol pump and electronic ignition . |
| 10 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
| 11 | Even the awareness that I had a choice was of course a product of the way that I was brought up . |
| 12 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 13 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |
| 14 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 15 | Being a fair-minded person and still hoping that I had a chance to get a cultural stew going , I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) , but he did not give me a chance either . |
| 16 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 17 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 18 | As in fact I had a go at that I had a go at I had a go at them about another prod er another photograph . |
| 19 | A doctor with a soothing voice and an old-fashioned black bag pronounced , absurdly , that I had a cold . |
| 20 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 21 | Then I mentioned that I had a Lawson Buford tuba solo from 1927 somewhere in my record collection and I was back in favour . |
| 22 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 23 | We were summoned to Buckingham Palace to discuss this , and as we approached the gates in my car , I remembered that I had a case of 250 cartridges in the boot . |
| 24 | When I reminded him that I had given expert advice and spent time and petrol on his call , he agreed reluctantly that I had a case . |
| 25 | ‘ To be honest it 's about time that I had a bit of luck . |
| 26 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
| 27 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 28 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 29 | The light was so confusing , the monster 's movements so fast , that I had a memory only of an abstraction of sculptured bone . |
| 30 | ‘ The reason I rang last night is that I had a message from your publishers , ’ he went on . |