Example sentences of "i have [verb] it a " in BNC.
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1 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
2 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
3 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
4 | I had called it a ‘ wee bridal veil ’ — obviously foxed by the scale . |
5 | I had to repeat it a number of times so that there could be no misunderstanding . |
6 | I had thought it a measure of their love and generosity that the nuns would make the suppliants laugh . |
7 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
8 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
9 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
10 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
11 | You see , and , I , I now I 've handled it a little bit better , but I could n't focus much at all this morning . |
12 | I 've wore it a couple of times for . |
13 | Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah . |
14 | Mm I 've seen it a U as well I must admit . |
15 | ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then . |
16 | Yeah , I 've noticed it a wee bit |
17 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
18 | Actually I 've moved it a bit too far that way have I ? |
19 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
20 | But as the organisation has seen to be when it meets generally speaking , the council and the executive are one and the same dealing with exactly the same business , I 've considered it a meeting of the organisation , and the organisation now basically is going to be the seven sub-committee plus an Annual General Meeting of it 's full council . |
21 | I 've had it a while now , couple of years . |
22 | I 've had it a bit on my conscience , really , for the last few months . |
23 | I thought I would do it alone , but now I 've met you again I 've changed it a bit . ’ |
24 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |
25 | I have to give it an important-sounding name . |
26 | I have given it a name . |
27 | ‘ I have given it a chance . |
28 | Head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , head and shoulders , knees and toes , knees and toes , and eyes and ears and mouth and nose , head and shoulders , knees and toes , me and he , I have to do it a little bit faster |
29 | I have to take it a little at a time , it is so powerful . |
30 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |