Example sentences of "i have have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’
2 I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown .
3 I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred .
4 I 'd had a good week .
5 I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path .
6 I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section .
7 Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain …
8 ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything .
9 ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’
10 I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her .
11 But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee .
12 I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully .
13 In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses .
14 If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’
15 It was as if I 'd had a bad dream .
16 He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was
17 But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like .
18 I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career .
19 Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’
20 It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes .
21 By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention !
22 I think I 'd had a few , few home-made wines .
23 I 'd had a few !
24 True , I 'd had the occasional setback , like proposing to Tony Kessler when I was four .
25 ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says .
26 Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma .
27 Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated .
28 I 'd had the big three — fag , belt , Aspro — and was feeling much better inside the Bible-bunk .
29 ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus .
30 Do I have to have a Compact job ?
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