Example sentences of "i have [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , I 'll I 've got to walk the end of the street , get a bus . |
| 2 | Oh yeah definitely see I 've started doing a newsletter for |
| 3 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
| 4 | It was still early , and the rain I 'd heard forecast the previous night was looking about ready to drop . |
| 5 | Erm I 'd liked to discuss the point about what aid we can give to try and promote the stability and the event of prosperity of the country . |
| 6 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 7 | I 'd decided to leave the ‘ coo' de grass until the morning when I would feel more up to it . |
| 8 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 9 | I suppose I 'd wanted to lure the boy into an acceptance of our ways and if pancakes were the bait , I 'd use it . |
| 10 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 11 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
| 12 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 13 | Wish I 'd thought to tape the call ; could have been a bootleg bestseller . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time I 'd finished reading the report I was fairly confident that if I , as an adult , accepted what was on that screen as being right , valid and interesting , then it would be the same for a child — provided I took out any excessive sexuality and violence . |
| 15 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 16 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 17 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else . |
| 18 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 19 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 20 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
| 21 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 22 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 23 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 24 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 25 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 27 | But I have n't gone really as I hoped cos I 'd envisaged having the membership list with sort of names of who 'll make cakes , who 'll help on the stall and then know who to phone |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 29 | By the time I 'd learned to appreciate the Stage , I was already on it . |
| 30 | Higher up the dome became steeper , but by now I 'd learned to trust the rock a bit more . |