Example sentences of "i have [verb] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything .
2 Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together .
3 AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around .
4 I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that .
5 So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office .
6 Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’
7 I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills .
8 There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’
9 After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory .
10 ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house .
11 But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop .
12 At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon .
13 I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit .
14 During our journey on the Northern Line I 'd sketched in the background to his coming to England in ‘ 38 , fleeing the Nazis .
15 So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself .
16 I put on some gold dangly earrings I 'd found in the bottom of my bag and came out feeling a new woman .
17 I used my usual metal overflow piece , which I keep hidden in the dunes near the best dam-building site , and the piece de resistance was an aqueduct bottomed with an old black plastic rubbish-bag I 'd found in the driftwood .
18 ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's .
19 Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago .
20 A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it .
21 But it was no good , little bits fell out , and I 'd started in the most obvious place , where he 's bound to spot it .
22 By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself .
23 In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women .
24 In New York I 'd sat in the winter sun on wooden steps at South Street pier and swapped cards with an old girlfriend , now a free-lance writer .
25 Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ?
26 But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand .
27 I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse .
28 I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful .
29 During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people .
30 I had lived in the midst of the Amazons without knowing it .
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