Example sentences of "a [noun] i [verb] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 2 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 3 | In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life . |
| 4 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 5 | As a result I have had to conclude it will be quite difficult to include an article based on the interesting paper you wrote for the branch , in the next edition . |
| 6 | Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What a job I 've had catching you . |
| 8 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 9 | A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes . |
| 10 | It was a pilgrimage I had had to make , and I was glad I had made it . |
| 11 | It was funny , we sat in silence facing each other and I had a feeling I 've had once or twice before , of the most peculiar closeness to him — not love or attraction or sympathy in any way . |
| 12 | I really did feel very left out , and left out of something important , a feeling I 'd had before . |
| 13 | That 's a habit I seemed to have got into during the pregnancy . |
| 14 | It 's not a phrase I 've had occasion to use all that much . |
| 15 | A valley I know has rowan trees growing with oak , birch and holly . |
| 16 | In taking this line of thought for a walk I have had to develop a model of antiracism itself , and this in the more properly social scientific sense of the word — the model as a typology of instances . |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries . |
| 18 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 19 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
| 20 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | It 's just an idea I 've had and … ’ |