Example sentences of "i have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 2 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
| 3 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 4 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 5 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 6 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 7 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 8 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 11 | I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ? |
| 12 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 13 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 14 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 16 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 17 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 18 | My mouth felt as if I 'd swallowed a cheesegrater and my scalp had suddenly acquired radioactive dandruff . |
| 19 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 20 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 21 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 22 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 23 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 24 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 25 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 26 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 27 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 28 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 29 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 30 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |