Example sentences of "i have have a [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 26 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 27 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 28 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 29 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 30 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |