Example sentences of "i have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If only I 'd lived 'longside you , |
| 32 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 33 | And before that , I 'd written poetry . |
| 34 | If I belonged anywhere , it was with these people , the lumpenbourgeoisie , in whose eyes I 'd lost caste , fatally and irrevocably . |
| 35 | I must also admit that I 'd lost faith at this goal ! |
| 36 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 37 | I 'd lost control . |
| 38 | Perhaps I could tell Norman he was a godson with whom I 'd lost touch when his real mother died ? |
| 39 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 40 | I 'd stopped crying . |
| 41 | I 'd stopped eating . |
| 42 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 43 | Well I mean I 'd bought stuff they 'd all share . |
| 44 | I was the second half , an extension of him , and instead of complementing him I 'd thrown shit all over him . |
| 45 | I told him and it was as if I 'd opened Heaven 's door . |
| 46 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 47 | They wanted them all back when I agreed to sell — at their price — but I said I 'd spilt coffee on some of them and thrown them away . |
| 48 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 49 | I 'd got company in the back seat . |
| 50 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 51 | I 'm told I 'd got arthritis in there , but that 's years ago . |
| 52 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 53 | I thought I 'd got pneumonia . ’ |
| 54 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 55 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 56 | I was coming near to the place where I 'd left Vern sitting on the bench . |
| 57 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 58 | ‘ I was two months pregnant and my parents said I 'd brought shame on their house and they kicked me out . ’ |
| 59 | I 'd changed subway trains unnecessarily three times in order to check no one leapt out with me as the doors slid shut . |
| 60 | To begin with , I 'd spent part of the night dreaming about Father — one of those long , tangled dreams with occasional moments of such lucid clarity that you can remember them in detail for years afterwards . |