Example sentences of "[vb base] i have [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
2 I mean I 've written countless letters and nothing 's been done .
3 It 'll do a lot of good I mean I 've put both plants out during the week , they were fairly dry then , but now if you 'd see that , that , they 've taken already
4 As Maggie 's talking to me I mean you can see like my here I mean I 've got all sorts , as you would use that , those pages for , there 's notes as I 'm going through of things that we were doing and er the university and , and everything like that and there 's other parts of it that , I mean the , the things that you would come back to and elaborate more on
5 I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures .
6 I mean I 've known little strikes there last about a couple of days and they all got over it .
7 I trust I have provided enough reasons to show that the use of the phrase ‘ pain in animals ’ is so indefinable that it is meaningless to animals and to those who have the well-being of animals at heart .
8 Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ?
9 You know I 've seen those sorts of problems before .
10 Er , I know I 've made some mistakes which they 've missed and I 've managed to put those right as I went on .
11 Well , you know I 've got brown eyes ; make of that what you will .
12 I know I 've got some Tunes that are good .
13 Yes I suppose I 've had ten points behind anybody else , but erm that 's not too bad , you know , out of a hundred it 's reasonable .
14 Now , suppose I have taken enough men on already — ‘ Donald laughed .
15 I said I think that 's wonderful I said cos do you know how long I 've been out the union now , three months , well I reckon I 've saved thirty pounds , you 've got thirteen quid back
16 I think I 've made different kinds of Joe Jackson albums .
17 I think I 've got five minutes which is probably more than some of you delegates have got so I 'll keep it fairly short and sweet .
18 I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire .
19 ‘ I think I 've had enough lessons for a while .
20 I think I 've mixed these buggers up .
21 That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava .
22 I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay .
23 I wish I 'd cycled six miles home !
24 I wish I 'd bought some chips — I 'm still pretty hungry .
25 I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up …
26 You know I 've had er I 've I 've had seven children myself .
27 It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here .
28 But it , if if we wanted to change what we 've done already we we could at a certain stage have a level three , I mean I 've I 've ordered these books , you know mathematics level by level
29 They 've got it at the Law College and I 've I 've spent some lunchtimes fiddling with it and thinking I want !
30 you see I 've got two subsids now literally the transfer
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