Example sentences of "i have [verb] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 7 | ‘ I had wanted to do a charity fashion show two weeks ago , but my bosses would n't allow it . |
| 8 | I had wanted to make a beautiful man , but the face of the creature was horrible . |
| 9 | I had planned to take a train there ; to head south and see more of South America . |
| 10 | 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 — |
| 11 | I had planned to have a word with my Maker before walking on , but I could n't get in . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had intended to adopt a more conciliatory approach , but his whole manner made me angry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had hoped to find a single sponsor , but this has not proved possible in the short time available . |
| 17 | For the past three months , as the illness slowly overcame me , I had struggled to start a new novel . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I do know that by midsummer I had started to write a love-story . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the early days , I had tried to make a few suggestions about what the FO could be doing . |
| 22 | I had meant to give a detailed critique of the interaction between performers and studio audience in You Asked For It ( Tuesday , Radio 4 ) , a comedy improvisation game produced by the ‘ Cardiff Comedy Explosion ’ and introduced by a shy man called Luke Sorba . |
| 23 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 24 | I had agreed to do a study of the pastoral care system for the school as the ‘ price ’ for this freedom to roam . |
| 25 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 26 | Once , in the early days , it had failed completely , and sometimes I had had to take a double dose before I changed into Hyde . |
| 27 | So many of you have written in and asked for help with this game , I 've decided to print a few more hints ( thanks go to Richard Lupton , Mark Latham and Ewen Nicholson for this stuff ) . |
| 28 | I 've decided to found a new literary prize , the William Boot Award for Fuzzy Copywriting . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've wanted to do a marathon for a long time , but it would be silly to run one without putting it to use . |
| 30 | My whole family background has been responsible , in a way , for , by virtue of the example of my parents , for my distress at witnessing prejudice , whether it be colour , or religious , or whatever , and intolerance , and so on , and I 've wanted to do a subject about South Africa for a long time , and this was enhanced erm obviously when I made Ghandi because , as you know , the first twenty odd years of Ghandi 's life |