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

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1 you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long
2 I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad .
3 I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’
4 Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling
5 I 'd heard him for a bit by then .
6 I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief .
7 I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid .
8 I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers .
9 I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . "
10 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
11 ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed .
12 I 'd seen it along the end of the track .
13 Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said .
14 There could n't be anything wrong with my chest unless I 'd swallowed something as a child , an old thrupenny bit .
15 I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics .
16 ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’
17 ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’
18 On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray .
19 I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’
20 My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’
21 Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute
22 I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her .
23 ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’
24 I retrieved my stash from where I 'd taped it under the steering column and my cigarettes and green Rizla papers from the dashboard .
25 ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse .
26 I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back .
27 Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up .
28 Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me .
29 For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk .
30 By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it .
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