Example sentences of "i have [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 2 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 3 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 4 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 5 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 6 | Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ? |
| 7 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 8 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 9 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 11 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 12 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 13 | I had to wait in a corridor . |
| 14 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 15 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 16 | ‘ You remember I had to get in a barman to help with drunks and keep a bit of law and order about the place ? |
| 17 | Kylie remembered : ‘ I had to speak in a Dutch accent which I was n't very good at . ’ |
| 18 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 19 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 20 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 21 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 22 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 23 | That 's the third 'an I 've lost in a week and I 'm flummoxed I want ye out here this mornin' to have another look round . " |
| 24 | I 've played in a certain town that makes linoleum where the audience did not laugh once . |
| 25 | Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own . |
| 26 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 27 | For the past seven years I 've skied in a selection of one-piece uninsulated shell suits and I doubt if I will ever turn back . |
| 28 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 29 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 30 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |