Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 2 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 6 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 7 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 8 | In his French interview , Cantona said of his time at Leeds : ‘ I had become boss of the team , and manager Howard Wilkinson told me so . |
| 9 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 10 | I had to take care of myself . |
| 11 | I had got hold of the suitcase and with the other hand I unclasped her fingers from my hair . |
| 12 | I had chosen Escallop of Veal sauteed in Butter and finished with Onion , Mushrooms and Marsala . |
| 13 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've lost track of how long it is now we 've been neighbours . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 16 | Yes , we , yes the , the rea the reason why it , this why confu confusions is if anyone else does n't realise is that the International Secretaire , which is the International Body controlling all Amnesty Groups throughout the world of which there are maybe fifty , sixty , I 've lost count of the number , erm |
| 17 | I 've lost count of the number of late-night movies we 've watched in this way or the number of dawns we 've seen together . ’ |
| 18 | I 've lost count of how many women I have helped . |
| 19 | I 've lost count of the number of weddings happening this year — hence the need to do some dressmaking . |
| 20 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 21 | It stops me concentrating on breathing properly and makes me feel as if I 've lost control of the situation . |
| 22 | I 've seen evidence of his denouncing racial prejudice in others , and it greatly impressed me . |
| 23 | to do a ginger , I I 've eaten ginger of that kind |
| 24 | I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’ |
| 25 | We used to , I 've sold card of the match , at , at cricket matches . |
| 26 | No , I 've read sort of odd letters from b bewildered of , of |
| 27 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 28 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 29 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 30 | I 've had experience of this kind of work . |