Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman , for whom I have some affection , or to any other Labour Member who can tell me what part of that mandate I have reneged on .
2 Bounce over to the typewriter and have a look at this contract I 've drawn up .
3 This would be a shame and later in this spiel I have put down some thoughts on the matter .
4 On another occasion I had set out alone across Peterhead Outer Harbour with our 17ft Searider to fetch the rummage crew off a ship when careless stowage of the bow rope resulted in the trailing end catching the propeller .
5 This month I have written out several ‘ popular ’ jazz phrases , all of which use chromatic approach notes and semitone resolution and release which , in turn , add interest to the melodic contour of the phrases .
6 ‘ I 've never suffered serious injury before , yet this season I 've picked up two .
7 says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ?
8 ‘ So , as I was saying … this agreement I 've drawn up
9 comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know
10 I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong !
11 I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end .
12 Depends how much work I 've put in .
13 That much perfume I 've put on my cold sores , .
14 In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel .
15 I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’
16 And anything , then national testing I 've got down the twenty four er , week thirty two to week thirty seven .
17 ‘ It was the strangest game I 've played in — as if the crowd had stuck a big syringe in me and sucked all the energy out , ’ he said .
18 A little angle I 've worked out .
19 ‘ I just hope that after that build-up I 've lived up to my reputation ! ’
20 After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 .
21 It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence .
22 This is the first break I 've taken in over three years . ’
23 As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah .
24 Opposite the front door I had come in by was a staircase which I proceeded to climb .
25 Well , well actually , there 's one thing I 've missed out which I said I 'd come back to , and that was the front line review that I referred to .
26 If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’
27 This is the first time I 've stayed up this long !
28 ‘ It is the first time I have played up front since the FA Cup semi-final .
29 ‘ Richard has done it before , but it was the first time I have abseiled down a mine-shaft and the last , ’ said John , of Whitton Close , Acklam , Middlesbrough .
30 I 've lost on every single share I 've invested in , " was a typical moan .
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