Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 2 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 3 | I 'd got through to a girl I said extension two three six and then oh and the feller said er |
| 4 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 5 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 6 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 7 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 8 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 9 | I had to go round with a can of milk ! |
| 10 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 12 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 13 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 14 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 15 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 16 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 17 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 18 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 20 | It always looks as if I 've gone along with a sort of scalpel at the bottom of the letters as well , a sort of shaved off |
| 21 | But if any of the women folks which I 've gone out with a a bowl of soup to him many a time . |
| 22 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 23 | I 've ended up with a drink in the face , exit really quickly , her boyfriend did n't really like it much … ’ |
| 24 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
| 25 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 26 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 27 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 28 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 29 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 30 | I 'm I 'm actually I have to go back to a house . |