Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 2 | It is by comparison with the published criteria and all the information available to me that I have reached a judgment . |
| 3 | I have reached a stage where I can watch television , as long as the programme does n't require too much attention , and knit at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Major said : ‘ I have sent a message to President-Elect Clinton offering him my congratulations . |
| 5 | In fact , I have to spend a lot of my time asking silly questions of people while standing in all sorts of silly places . |
| 6 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 7 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 8 | I have said a tune is one meme , but what about a symphony : how many memes is that ? |
| 9 | I agree , sometimes I can tell you I have witnessed a hunt and on a cold , frosty morning when er about forty or fifty horses are thundering across the ploughed field , it 's enough to p the power of that sight is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up that 's not what we are against the hunter that came to me and says Eh up lad , I wo n't go drag hunting because I 'm sixty years old , I 've done it all my life and I like the ride , I like to be there I never see a fox killed that 's fact , it 's in the video . |
| 10 | As a writer , reviewer and professional artist I have accumulated a collection of over 40 videos . |
| 11 | More than I have wanted a woman for a very long time … ’ |
| 12 | After 3 x 3 gallon exchanges between these two tanks , I have achieved a reading within 0.5 ( 6.2–6.7 ) |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm very pleased because Martin and I have achieved a lot together , and a championship race is what we were after . ’ |
| 14 | In his covering letter he mentioned yet another title and gave the Wagnerian aspect an unexpected prominence : " I have written a pamphlet … which is to have the title " Music and Tragedy " , and I am sending you the beginning of it in manuscript . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry , Henry , but I have written a paper , which I 'm planning to send to Tom Haines , which more or less says precisely this . |
| 16 | ‘ I have written a letter , ’ Kezia replied in a whisper . |
| 17 | And then your editor goes on Jonathan Ross ' show and humiliates him more ( I have written a letter to Ross as well , for laughing at Jason like that ) . |
| 18 | With Peter Stanford , the outgoing editor of the Catholic Herald newspaper , I have written a book , Catholics and Sex . |
| 19 | Although my husband lost his fight against leukaemia , a part of my heart will always be at Bart 's and I have written a book about his illness to raise money for leukaemia research . |
| 20 | Madam Chairman , you will know that I have written a number of letters . |
| 21 | I 've been particularly interested in the clumsy child , who has co-ordination , rhythm and timing difficulties , and I have written a booklet which is now available for parents and for teachers who are interested , for the age range five years to eleven years , which gives parents exercises to carry out with their children to encourage the child in overcoming difficulties with co-ordination , rhythm , timing , and to help them with speaking , writing and reading remediation . |
| 22 | ‘ Frederick , I am very busy , I have lost a day in meetings … |
| 23 | Do I , she asked herself , imagine that because I have lost a man I am in the same category as spotty Betty ? |
| 24 | My tank has been matured since last December and I have lost a Fireball Angel , a Swallow Tail Angel and a Cream Angel . |
| 25 | I have lost a number of fish , which were completely covered with them . |
| 26 | I think I have become a bit more positive . |
| 27 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |
| 28 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 29 | I have become a snob . |
| 30 | ‘ I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles ’ he wrote , ‘ such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments ’ . |