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

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1 I got to have some beef in that role .
2 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 .
3 If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face .
4 Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything .
5 At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did .
6 And then , as the job came up with Social Services , and I joined it , I did have some reservations , because I felt that maybe people would see me as sort of having deserted them and joined them , you know , er brilliant movie ?
7 Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry .
8 no , I said have some toast and told you
9 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
10 ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see .
11 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
12 ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder .
13 The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan .
14 I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was .
15 You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked .
16 ‘ IT WOULD HAVE all been easier , Daddy , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if you 'd had some sort of regular job .
17 Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know .
18 She 'd had some tomatoes and er she never washes them all she do n't do that
19 She 'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this .
20 She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes .
21 She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless …
22 which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed .
23 She mentioned that she kept had some Ercol furniture .
24 When Annunziata came to collect the tray , Julia asked her tentatively whether she had had some news .
25 and that , that would be because your , your twenty million pounds in it has really got no erm , had got no independent justification on arbitrary limiting a number of people able to compete , but what , what if you 're able to satisfy everybody that you had to have some pay out capital , twenty million is ridiculous
26 She wanted to have some measure of control over her own productivity — which she could exercise by walking more quickly or slowly .
27 But at the same time she was young , and she wanted to have some fun before she became exactly like her mother .
28 And we 'd had some pearls I said , I said I do n't remember buying you that , she said oh yes , she said you
29 And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these .
30 In spite of our happy experiences with SBA , the electronic throttle and the electronic linkage , we did have some problems with the Same 's performance monitor .
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