Example sentences of "[noun pl] i have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 2 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 3 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 4 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 5 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 6 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 7 | Within 10 minutes I had found a suitable love-nest at the Glasgow Green , some 200 yards from the High Court . |
| 8 | No , I 've got to revise for my erm science test tomorrow and I 've got loads of stuff to do , I 've got to keep going for the weekend , actually I have n't got that much to do , I 've got drama that I can do if you just would be so kind turn over to number three so I can have a look at some adverts I 've got a , will there be any adverts after |
| 9 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 10 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 11 | In the past six months I 've worn a pair for a variety of purposes , from rock climbing to trekking , from gardening to pubbing and they 're still presentable . |
| 12 | Over the past few months I have noticed a slight decrease in the amount of information being sent for publication in Touchline . |
| 13 | John insisted that the ballerina 's costume must take account of the fact that the pas de deux ‘ is most unfrivolous and very tender — in all the other movements I have used a faint taint of period , but this , being the most lyrical … is completely classical . ’ |
| 14 | I 've got a lovely bunch of coconuts I 've got a lovely bunch of coconuts |
| 15 | Anyway , since those days I 've had a marked preference for small frail soft-spoken dentists like Mr Grover . |
| 16 | To describe the underlying messages I 've borrowed a term from script-writing , the sub-text , which describes the intentions and motivation behind the words . |
| 17 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 18 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 19 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 20 | Q Over the years I 've accumulated a motley collection of kitchen knives , none of which are very sharp . |
| 21 | Over the years I 've encountered a fair number of weird and wonderful marketing ideas , but perhaps none more eye-catching than Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Dinner Classics ’ series . |
| 22 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 23 | For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association . |
| 24 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 25 | Over the years I have developed a profound belief that the Foreign Office has criteria entirely its own . |
| 26 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 27 | Over the years I have had a few interesting experiences with computer hardware . |
| 28 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 29 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 30 | I 've got very strange ideals , and one of the things I 've got a very definite mind on is abortion . |