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

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1 I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because
2 Going ahead with Sizewell might then be a marginally attractive proposition on economic grounds though given the risks I have already referred to the case would hardly be overwhelming .
3 ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls .
4 That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock .
5 They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels .
6 ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation .
7 Yes , I think it 's most probably one of the most important goals I 've ever scored in my life , especially when it was last minute , now because we soaked a lot of pressure up and as I say , it 's the best time to score .
8 After the brief words I have just exchanged with Stephanie , I promise she will trouble us no longer , cara . ’
9 Some other more exotic models I have already referred to in passing .
10 It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos .
11 So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden .
12 " Those are the first wild elephants I 've ever seen in my life , " he whispered reverently , and his grin of delight spread front ear to ear .
13 Our cabin is marvellous , and on top of that , I 'm going to see places I 've only dreamed about until now . ’
14 Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it .
15 Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues .
16 Over the last few years I have actively participated in various Black women 's activities .
17 ‘ For nine years I have virtually lived with him .
18 Erm and it 's talking about this er accommodation theory Giles ' accommodation theory which has one main assumption erm that all the things I 've just mentioned about pronunciation and speech rates and things , erm they all occur in in order to encourage more interaction between the two speakers .
19 Now I do things I 've always wanted to .
20 The whole process was one of the most tiring and yet satisfying things I have ever done in my life .
21 The only problems I 've ever had with it was the fucking n erm that thingie I had were n't it ?
22 These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement .
23 As to the third point ( the reason why the court lacks jurisdiction to review ) , the views of Holt C.J. are supported by the passages I have already quoted from Rex v. Bishop of Ely ( inability to decide on the statutes of the college ‘ of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum ’ ) and Ex parte Buller , 1 Jur .
24 I spent the night thankfully unaware of the marathon needlework going on in my chest and drifted back late in the morning to a mass of tubes and machines and techniques I 'd never heard of .
25 Again , the motive you assign to your murderer must be credible , and the various suggestions I have already made about motive could well help if you decide to plan a story on the inverted system .
26 Then he put the Bible down and said , ‘ Auntie Lou , what lovely gloves , they 're the best gloves I 've ever had in my whole life .
27 The second half began with some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever witnessed at a football match .
28 In fact , he is one of the best professionals I have ever played with — and I 've been around a few years ! ’
29 Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do .
30 He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast .
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