Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd seen an accident the other day in town I 'd seen two and did you notice
2 It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know .
3 I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris .
4 Where 's the corkscrew ? ’ and he 'd answered — dead straight — ‘ What do you want a corkscrew for ? ’ and so I 'd made an excuse and left quickly .
5 " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . "
6 TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME .
7 And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing .
8 Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule .
9 I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction .
10 I 'd got an option from the firm and they were very good that way .
11 So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … .
12 I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City .
13 I 'd stuffed an Olympus Trip camera into one of my Reeboks and some spare film into the other .
14 ‘ If I 'd had an op on my knee that summer it might have been all right .
15 I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too .
16 I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol .
17 I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph .
18 Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth .
19 Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home .
20 I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals .
21 In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon .
22 On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 .
23 I had heard an Irishman say ‘ Begorrah ’ and now I could die happy .
24 I had discovered an area of my life over which others had no control .
25 I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker .
26 I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours .
27 Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing .
28 In a moment of stupidity I had forged an entry into my building society account book with a pencil , attempting to draw out several hundred pounds .
29 Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility .
30 I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired .
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