Example sentences of "i 've [adv] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But safety is something I 've already had taught to me . |
| 2 | No thanks I 've just had to spit me coffee back in there |
| 3 | I 've just had to sell my Spitfire … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just had to walk for miles , ’ she said , flopping down into an armchair . |
| 5 | I 've just had to get on with it , and that 's been a good thing . ’ |
| 6 | I must insist we get back to the boundaries , I 've repeatedly had to do so this afternoon I would have thought it that the message would have got over to me honourable members before now . |
| 7 | I 've also had to put an old cat to sleep , and some children from the new estate brought their hamster in . |
| 8 | I 've also had to face behind desks the same kind of pretentious people , what Shakespeare calls the ‘ insolence of office ’ . |
| 9 | Telling the children was probably the hardest thing I 've ever had to do . |
| 10 | It was the most technically complex piece of acting I 've ever had to do . |
| 11 | Watching my son die was the hardest thing I 've ever had to do . |
| 12 | I can honestly say that every audience I 've ever had has been very good , except , perhaps , for a school for the mentally handicapped we visited once where one or two started turning round and talking whilst I was speaking . |
| 13 | Those last two miles were the longest I 've ever had to run ! ’ |
| 14 | I 've always had to do everything . |
| 15 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always had to fight . |
| 17 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 18 | I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never had to cook in my life before , ’ she muttered . |
| 20 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 21 | I 've never had to arrange a funeral before . ’ |
| 22 | I 've never had to perform this operation . |
| 23 | Well I 've never had to do that . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never had to call him out , I do n't know what he 's like . |
| 25 | But I 've never had to use them . |
| 26 | even if I 've never had to use it much |
| 27 | So , I appologise for the excessive size of this one ; - } } ( I 've never had to say that before ) but I have decided not to compress them . |
| 28 | Certainly , you 've got to be pigeon-holed into a market and people want to know whether I 'm white or black , which is something I 've never had to think about before . |
| 29 | I 've never had taken that . |
| 30 | But I 've never had to worry about them so I , I 've never really got on and learnt them . |