Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 2 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 3 | I had n't ridden for three years . |
| 4 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 5 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
| 6 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 7 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 8 | I had n't asked for Rosa , that was for sure . |
| 9 | Kim fought her way through a dozen pairs of clutching hands to bring me another pint of something I had n't asked for but would n't refuse . |
| 10 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 11 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 12 | Who I had n't seen for goodness knows how long . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't worked for about a year and a half , and I was about to compromise — to take a part in a stupid comedy . |
| 14 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 15 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 16 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 17 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 18 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 19 | Perhaps I envisaged pleasant , but traumatic , encounters with ex-course mates who I had not seen for years . |
| 20 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 21 | One thing I had not bargained for was the amount of Gaelic spoken in the country districts . |
| 22 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 23 | I had not prayed for so long I did n't know what to say . |
| 24 | I took strong objection to this , pointing out that I had not volunteered for membership , or invited membership , but had been asked to join by the Secretary of State . |
| 25 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 26 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 27 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 28 | I had once played for a Media XI against the local club . |
| 29 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |
| 30 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |