Example sentences of "i have a [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
2 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
3 | I had a most successful career at school . |
4 | Last April , nearly a year ago , I had a most moving spiritual experience . |
5 | I had a most interesting conversation about Italian opera with a waiter called Giovanni , who was as enthusiastic as me about Verdi . |
6 | Boswell here lets fly with a breath-taking assumption that country folk had a lonely , miserable time : ‘ I had a most disagreeable [ that is to say distressing ] notion of the life of a country gentleman , ’ and he left Mr Fraser , he said , ‘ as one leaves a prisoner in a jail ’ . |
7 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
8 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
9 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
10 | I had a pretty good marriage going with Vera . |
11 | By this time I had a pretty firm image of the tables in my mind . |
12 | I had a pretty good idea what they wanted to discuss with me . |
13 | Once I had a pretty decent collection of films on tape , but I ca n't handle anything continuous any more . |
14 | I had a pretty open mind on the subject . |
15 | Malpass said I had a pretty clear-cut choice . |
16 | After re-decorating my kitchen I had a nearly new vegetable rack spare . |
17 | Of course , I 've never thought her dizzy ; I 've always admired her , and I wish I had a little of her grey matter . ’ |
18 | cos I had a right old attitude , I mean , I mean , I know it sounds modest , but , I was doing it well , do n't get me wrong , I was doing it , and I , but then it started getting a bit |
19 | I had a particularly gruesome review quite recently . |
20 | Last night Mr Cvejic said : ‘ Before the war in Yugoslavia I had a well paid job and a nice flat . ’ |
21 | So , instead of leaving it idle , I sold the machine and donated the money to a charity for the disabled , as I had a mentally disabled sister who died when I was 13 . |
22 | ‘ After all , ’ she went on , ‘ I had a perfectly valid reason for being there . |
23 | I had a damn good clear out I think most of mine have gone . |
24 | I said I had a damn good go at her yesterday afternoon ! |
25 | I had a damn good clear up here . |
26 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
27 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
28 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
29 | ‘ I had a far happier childhood than you did , from the sound of it . |
30 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |