Example sentences of "[noun] so i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 2 | because it was Tuesday so I had to have next choose the following weeks ' . |
| 3 | " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat . |
| 4 | I think you already have newsletter 1 and a mem. card so I 've sent you newsletter 2 . |
| 5 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | The Hijackers do n't know there 's a C.B. in the truck so I 've managed to feed the mike through to the back and I 'll keep sending as much information as I can . |
| 8 | I am concerned to ensure CPRW puts in a considered response so I have asked Professor Haines , who chaired our Agriculture Working Party , to convene a special meeting of expert and experienced people to advise us . |
| 9 | I still needed money so I had to carry on working the streets . |
| 10 | Matt has asked particularly for a device which can be interfaced with a computer so I have searched through my data library in order to find a short-list of suitable devices . |
| 11 | ‘ It really touched me and made me feel quite sad that a man should have died in the street from hypothermia so I 've decided to try and do something to help ’ she said . |
| 12 | On this bit there 's no pavement so I have to walk in the road . |
| 13 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 14 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 15 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 16 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 17 | Their positions were under constant sniper fire during the day so I had to keep as close to the ground as possible . |
| 18 | Car dealer Ricky Evans , 30 , of Basingstoke , Hants , said yesterday : ‘ I did n't think I stood a chance so I 'd thrown the slip aside . ’ |
| 19 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I have never had great pace so I 've had little to lose . |
| 21 | At the moment , I 'm working on our Autumn brochure so I 've got a lot of work to do with our theatre manager , Brian Goddard . |
| 22 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 23 | I was a fanatical record collector ; I 've got six to seven thousand records so I 've got plenty of places to look for ideas . |
| 24 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 25 | I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do … |
| 26 | I was in the control area with Mala at the time so I had to suffer through it . |
| 27 | We do n't seem to have made much progress on this front so I have drawn up a set of forms myself , one for books , one for videos and one for software . |
| 28 | IN THE past year ‘ green ’ books have been flooding onto the market so I had to ask myself : ‘ What more can Green or Bust offer ? ’ |