Example sentences of "i have [verb] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 2 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 3 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 4 | But , er , so I 've appeared in these places , purely because I 'm , injustice , you know , stirs me up . |
| 5 | ‘ They scrummed well and it was as hard a match as I 've played in this season . |
| 6 | I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up . |
| 7 | I 've lived in this area for 25 years . |
| 8 | although that is the only error I 've made in these figures I , not myself |
| 9 | I 've worked in these homes for fifteen years and it was going on when I first started there . |
| 10 | I 've come in this theatre in nineteen seventy five . |
| 11 | I 've fought in more battles than you 'd be likely to believe . ’ |
| 12 | Now um I 've stuck in some data from the West study about um what sorts of feelings people reported themselves as having . |
| 13 | I 've tried in this book to demonstrate the importance for people in television to ignore the more glamorous and artificial aspects of the job , and to keep their feet firmly on the ground . |
| 14 | And I think , all those windows I 've got in that kitchen . |
| 15 | They said a , a normal person living on their own is only entitled to thirty nine pound sixty a week and that 's what I 've got in that book , but I do n't think they realise that I I 'm on me own and I 've got a gas , electricity and everything else to pay out of that |
| 16 | All of the documents and reports to which I have referred in this chapter serve to throw light upon the contemporary primary school and to provide material upon which to speculate about future developments . |
| 17 | What matters is that , regardless of their manufacturers , the devices themselves are enemies of each other in the special sense I have defined in this chapter . |
| 18 | In fact it seems to talk about almost every kind of animal there is apart from the bee , and , for someone like myself , a total newcomer to Islam , this is , I have to say in all honesty , deeply confusing . |
| 19 | A batteur de mesure … is in my opinion the most essential artist at the Opera ; the entire fate of the theatrical performance rests in his hands , and I have to say in all truth that citoyen Rey is beyond all praise in this regard . |
| 20 | It is likely , as I have said in another place , that he preferred in general the company of women to men . |
| 21 | But on the basis of what I have said in this chapter concerning the formation and power of governments , this comforting view is not plausible . |
| 22 | I have argued in this chapter that conventional references to such a separation during the seventeenth century are defective in two respects . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I went to Africa to teach but I was re-routed into education administration and I have stayed in that profession ever since . |
| 24 | As I have written in another context ( Dreamers , 1984 ) , ‘ Humanity is going to look pretty silly if it turns out that dreams do n't mean anything at all . ’ |
| 25 | The number of bitter , angry , women-hating recently divorced men I have met in this way has been a real eye-opener to me . |
| 26 | PAMELA : [ coming round ] O tell me , yet tell me not , what I have suffered in this distress . |
| 27 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 28 | I have lived in this country for seven years . |
| 29 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 30 | ‘ I have lived in this world a long time , child . |