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

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1 My initial instinct is to move a couple of hundred yards or so but some of my most memorable catches have occurred when I have moved only a couple of swims further down the drain .
2 From my point of view I have achieved quite a lot of those , I am very punctual and helpful .
3 ‘ Anyway , I have written quite a lot , ’ he lied , in splendid good heart .
4 I get the feeling that I have missed quite an experience . ’
5 The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing
6 I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question .
7 ‘ I think I have learned quite a bit from that , ’ admitted the former Walker Cup player .
8 I think I have read somewhere a bookseller 's comment that it would be fair to describe an ‘ opened ’ private press book as ‘ rare in this state ’ .
9 Although I have read only a summary of the one-day debate and not the full text of all the speeches , I believe that my impression is correct that the British hesitation over the two key areas was hardly referred to at all .
10 A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green .
11 Every time I wonder about going to join George and to use my TEFL qualification , I wonder how I would REALLY do teaching English to people , though I guess I have had quite a lot of ad hoc and ungrammatical ( ! ) experience with the various language students who have stayed here .
12 I have seen you in the House , and though we have n't met , I have taken rather a fancy to you , and would like if I can to help your career .
13 I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years .
14 I must confess that I have spent barely a fraction of my life paying any attention to the ragbag of funk/rap/rawk stomps that have swanned across the Atlantic over the past three years , but even RATM are sufficiently wired to blow several of my brain cells .
15 The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair .
16 Meanwhile , back in Austria , where I have spent quite a lot of time , the school kids are very confident and self-assured .
17 I think I have got quite a talent to amuse people .
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