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

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1 ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins .
2 ‘ I have never been physically assaulted by a client but there have been circumstances when I 've thought I should be a bit careful .
3 She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation .
4 I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that .
5 He had found my rope , climbed out of the moat , and was already running towards the trees where I had left my horse .
6 What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ?
7 I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief .
8 In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier .
9 Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown .
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