Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Hearing about Rodney 's book has reminded me that I 've got to get down to work on mine . ’
2 A movement had startled me and I turned to see Robin-Anne Crowninshield , dressed only in a white nightdress , standing in the main companionway .
3 He replied : ‘ We had our orders and they would have shot me if I had resisted . ’
4 I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else !
5 I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way .
6 I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first .
7 I 've done it and I 've sent it off No
8 yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why
9 if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed !
10 I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon .
11 I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and .
12 I ai n't got no best pans , I 've had my pa most of my pans , they 've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons , and I 've still got them and I 've had some of them twenty bloody years , all them pans .
13 Many television viewers were alarmed at the Forest boss 's ageing appearance on a BBC interview this week , and Clough admitted yesterday : ‘ My wife , Barbara , has told me that I 've got uglier and older .
14 Then you 've got yours and I 've got mine then .
15 She put her arms around the older woman and muttered , ‘ I felt so alone , entirely on my own , a few minutes ago , but I 've got you and I 've got Charlie and May and Frank .
16 ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right .
17 If I 've told you once I 've told you five thousand times , it 's all fluid . "
18 ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered .
19 I expect Poole has told you that I have searched London for the chemicals I need .
20 I could have told you if I 'd wanted to .
21 I want to know who 's got her and I want to know exactly where .
22 I had told him that I had met Fairfax .
23 I would have told him if I 'd thought there was a cat 's chance in hell he 'd have provided a guard for you — a constable on your doorstep . ’
24 I have n't I have n't bought it but I 've seen it .
25 This has happened to the car at some time in its past , as a result of which the crank shaft 's worn , the engine 's a bit dodgy , but I buy it 's not apparent when I buy it , but the engine breaks down after I 've bought it and I 've paid for this warranty , you 're going to come back and say ‘ oh , this was a defect inherent in the vehicle before you bought it , excluded by the warranty ’ .
26 ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’
27 I could n't have avoided it if I 'd wanted to .
28 I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited .
29 The slight attack of dysentery had tired me and I had slept most of yesterday and again this morning .
30 I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there .
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