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 | True , I 'd had the occasional setback , like proposing to Tony Kessler when I was four . |
| 18 | Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'd had the big three — fag , belt , Aspro — and was feeling much better inside the Bible-bunk . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 23 | I always knew I was adopted , so why could n't I have had the whole truth ? |
| 24 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 25 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 26 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 27 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |
| 28 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 29 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 30 | My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed . |