Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I got to have some beef in that role .
2 I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end .
3 Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again .
4 I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all .
5 I 'd had one week after another when my wages were light , what with fines and that .
6 Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector .
7 Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .
8 I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf .
9 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
10 I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why .
11 Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything .
12 ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’
13 That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year .
14 Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’
15 It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck .
16 When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so .
17 If only I 'd had more time .
18 I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger .
19 When I was younger I hated having red hair .
20 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
21 But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’
22 After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory .
23 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
24 I did have one idea , ’ Dougal said .
25 ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up .
26 and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ?
27 At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did .
28 I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that .
29 Well , I did have running water ;
30 no , I said have some toast and told you
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