Example sentences of "[pron] i have [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers .
2 Yes I do , I honestly do n't ask me I have n't got a clue how she managed .
3 Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning .
4 May I pay a tribute to the Under-Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham ( Mr. Lloyd ) , from whom I have always had the greatest courtesy and the most enormous amount of help in dealing with constituency cases .
5 Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great !
6 I I 've just received a fax of a letter sent to the leader of Liverpool City Council , coun er councillor Harry Rimmer by the right honourable member for Sutton Coldfield , in which he invites him to join an organisation called team two thousand er and as part of this invitation he 's invited to attend functions and briefings at Westminster , er at which cabinet m er ministers ministers e cabinet members ministers members of parliament , will be present .
7 Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl !
8 I I 've already made a ruling on that , on that point .
9 I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson
10 But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi .
11 there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life .
12 It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key .
13 This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before !
14 All sorts of bits were falling off , exposing lots of snazzy metalwork and futuristic circuitry the likes of which I had never seen the likes of .
15 But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate .
16 I think there 's someone else in me which I have n't given a chance to get out .
17 and erm er , we , and that there are various other erm we ways in which the parties should be protected , erm , which I have n't had a chance to look at today clearly the costs of investigating , the proper costs of investigating any structured settlement would have to be dealt with on a later occasion , that it is somehow awarded , instead of protected that the plaintiff gives the defendant notice , seven day 's notice before instructing any account on to advise on the structured settlement , so if the defendant thinks the plaintiff is being wholly unreasonable they can come back to court , quite at liberty to apply and get , make his point of the directions on the therefore within these context these are the sort of orders which , on the behalf of the plaintiff I can see and I would respectively suggest that we go away , draw them up and hand them in toy our Lordship and come back later in the day if we have difficult
18 As appears from the chronology which I have already recited the purpose of the December charge being executed in favour of the mortgagees was simply to replace the defective charge that had been given in September .
19 She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture .
20 ‘ I can tell you I 've just bought a Peugeot 205 diesel for my son , ’ he smiled .
21 ‘ I can assure you I 've never had the misfortune to meet your criminally motivated friend , but might I suggest that if you 're going to be paranoid about your picture you put it in a bank vault for safety ? ’
22 Mind you I 've always got a dog and a stick .
23 IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’
24 Mind you I have n't cut the stuff out completely , you understand .
25 I can assure you I have never slammed a woman in my life . ’
26 It 's something I 've always had an affection for .
27 It 's it 's something I 've obviously thought a lot about .
28 Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well
29 yeah definitely , although that essay I did today I think is really good , it 's probably the best one I 've ever written the grammar 's good , I do n't know whether , I do n't think the content 's particularly thrilling , but the grammar 's good
30 Unable to abide groups , upon seeing one I have always had an urge to tear it apart .
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