Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 2 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ I am certain of it , ’ he replied , but promptly settled her heartbeats to a dull , steady rhythm once more by adding , ‘ because of your car , did n't I have good reason to contact you ? ’ |
| 4 | There 's a lot of work to do on that case — can I have Susy Harvey to assist ? ’ |
| 5 | May I have full authority to support our AMG by force of arms if necessary . |
| 6 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 7 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 8 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 9 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
| 10 | When I left the army a couple of years ago , I had great difficulty coming to terms with my change in status . |
| 11 | ‘ I had great difficulty coming to terms with it and adjusting to the problem . |
| 12 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 13 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 14 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 15 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 16 | I had good cause to enjoy the many favours bestowed upon me by my inspector friend with the Cambridge police . |
| 17 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 18 | I had such difficulty persuading him to take Brückner 's story seriously . |
| 19 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 20 | I had one call to make before I hit the road . |
| 21 | So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ? |
| 22 | " I had one necklace left . |
| 23 | And I put balanced it out across this , and I set my camera down er down below , on a time exposure which runs off in about one minute , so I had one minute to run up the side of the thing and get out here and balance myself . |
| 24 | yeah , probably , I 'd just go and the names are , I thought it was like I was like half through the tape , yeah , and I thought , and I was like , I had one name to go |
| 25 | I had one name left and lucky it was on the back and just talking and talking and talking , it 's erm , it was in my bag , and it did , it did pick up |
| 26 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 27 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 28 | I had new locks fitted and — and I just stayed there . |
| 29 | Your reception was not courteous , but the Prince and I had other matters to discuss . |
| 30 | Asked why he had taken to the streets just hours before polling , he said : ‘ I had other things to do , as you may imagine . ’ |