Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] [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 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 3 | He 'd disliked anyone complimenting me and when I 'd done well in a race he 'd found it difficult to offer congratulations . |
| 4 | As far as I could remember I 'd rowed ashore in a fairly direct line from Joanna to the beach . |
| 5 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 6 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 7 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 10 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 11 | I 'd got through to a girl I said extension two three six and then oh and the feller said er |
| 12 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I had to go round with a can of milk ! |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 21 | I had walked straight into a hideous trap . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 24 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 25 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 28 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 29 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 30 | 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 . |