Example sentences of "i have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 2 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 3 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 4 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 5 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 6 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 7 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 8 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 9 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 10 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 11 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 12 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 13 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 14 | ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity . |
| 15 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 16 | I why do I have to work with that grid ? |
| 17 | Why in heaven 's name did I have to walk into this nightmare ? |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , do n't be rotten , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll go mad if I 'ave to lie on that bed any more today . |
| 19 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 20 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 21 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 22 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 23 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 24 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 25 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 26 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 27 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 28 | For years I had stood upon those scales and willed the reading down . |
| 29 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 30 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |