Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 2 | mind you the trouble is it 's alright in saying that but you see I 've got a bad chest , Philip 's got a bad chest |
| 3 | And unfortunately I 'd eaten a large quantity of this Afghani black and I was really bombed out and I slept half way through Jimi Hendrix and I could have kicked myself . |
| 4 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 5 | I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place . |
| 6 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 7 | I 'd done a round but and really this time it 's not going away you know ? |
| 8 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 9 | My mouth felt as if I 'd swallowed a cheesegrater and my scalp had suddenly acquired radioactive dandruff . |
| 10 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 11 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 12 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 13 | He said of his winter sporting expedition : ‘ I felt I 'd reached a decent standard by the end of the week , although I did take a tumble or two . |
| 14 | I 'd waited a bloody long time to be with you again , and there I was , behaving like a blasted prima donna and wasting my chances . |
| 15 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 16 | I also thought I 'd written a better poem because I 'd struggled with the voice , forced myself to hear it again in my mind and to reply to it . |
| 17 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |
| 18 | I 'd planned a liquid dinner for myself — ’ |
| 19 | I 'd bought a special bottle of wine . |
| 20 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 21 | as if I 'd hired a familiar for the crime . |
| 22 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 23 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 24 | But by now I 'd found a new market — the Sunday papers . |
| 25 | Even though I 'd found a fine lady to take care of him . |
| 26 | ‘ It would come out I 'd got a first at London University . |
| 27 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 28 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 29 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 30 | Well , I thought I 'd got a bloody good hand there . |