Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 2 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 3 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 4 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 5 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 6 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 7 | I 'd ensured generous media coverage . |
| 8 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 9 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 10 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 11 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd started classical guitar lessons , too , as that was the proviso for getting my original guitar . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 17 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 18 | Do I have to condition new floorboards before laying them ? |
| 19 | ’ I had to do extra rehearsals because I was new and she would daub my legs with methylated spirits and iodine . |
| 20 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 21 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 22 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 23 | I had reached optimum trust in my balance and my feet . |
| 24 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 25 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 26 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 27 | I had to carry hot water for washing to every room . ’ |
| 28 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 29 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 30 | Flying over the country at fifteen thousand feet at night , I had seen strange toy woods and towns and the eiderdown pattern of the fields . |