Example sentences of "i have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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1 | Oh yeah definitely see I 've started doing a newsletter for |
2 | 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 ! |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
8 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
9 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
10 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
11 | The harvest I had seen gathered a few kilometres away was back on the stalk . |
12 | ‘ I had wanted to do a charity fashion show two weeks ago , but my bosses would n't allow it . |
13 | I had wanted to make a beautiful man , but the face of the creature was horrible . |
14 | I had planned to take a train there ; to head south and see more of South America . |
15 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
16 | I had planned to have a word with my Maker before walking on , but I could n't get in . |
17 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
18 | I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry . |
19 | ‘ I had intended to become an Anglican priest but I saw more dark than light . |
20 | ‘ I had intended to become an Anglican priest , but I saw more dark than light . |
21 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
22 | Do n't tell Edgar or Catherine this , but I had hoped to find a friend at Wuthering Heights , someone to support me against Heathcliff . |
23 | I had hoped to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time available . |
24 | For the past three months , as the illness slowly overcame me , I had struggled to start a new novel . |
25 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
26 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
27 | But I do know that by midsummer I had started to write a love-story . |
28 | If I had wished to create a hard and more definite edge or accent then I would have had to ensure that everything was dry . |
29 | In the early days , I had tried to make a few suggestions about what the FO could be doing . |
30 | I had to throw throw a bucket of water at the door to show them . |