Example sentences of "[conj] i have [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week ! |
| 2 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 3 | ‘ No , not Rhoda Brocklebank , although I have seen her , in fact she has helped . |
| 4 | Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food . |
| 5 | ‘ Liverpool Football Club will never leave me , although I have left them . |
| 6 | But the bulk of it , now that I have re-read it in connection with this memoir , I have quietly made away with . |
| 7 | I have at this point tried to bring in some preliminary notions of stress and prominence without giving a full explanation ; by this stage in the course it is important to be getting familiar with the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables , and the nature of ‘ schwa ’ , but the subject of stress is such a large one that I have felt it best to leave its main treatment until later . |
| 8 | It appears to me that I have collected his and everyone else 's quota of the annoying little bastards , so I return to my trench , wrap myself up , and sleep fitfully until I am awakened to take my turn on guard . |
| 9 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 10 | I then reassure her that I have forgiven her , although I am aware that the word ‘ forgiven ’ implies that I have absolution in my gift . |
| 11 | She should be prepared to come and stand on her own two feet and say , er this happened to me , I 've survived it , I 'm proud that I have survived it . |
| 12 | ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’ |
| 13 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 14 | ‘ This time , Claudine was handing out heavy hints that I have kept her waiting too long . |
| 15 | ‘ I am ashamed that I have kept you from your rest , after so troublous a day . |
| 16 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman and to the House on countless occasions that we have provided TECs with the resources that they need to do the job that I have asked them to do . |
| 17 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that this is the first time that I have asked him a question since his appointment , and I intend to enjoy it ? |
| 18 | How often is it that I have asked you for money ? |
| 19 | I am sorry that I have made them |
| 20 | Their Majesties received us with such extraordinary graciousness that , when I shall tell it , people will declare that I have made it up . |
| 21 | ‘ Then you are being excessively flattering , to suggest that I have put it ‘ all ’ together . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 23 | I have worked with leaders whose style is so totally different to my own that I have found it incomprehensible that they achieve results , but nevertheless they do . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't pretend that I have found it a burden of such onerousness that it has disturbed what I have needed to do in my company , ’ he commented this week . |
| 25 | His Oxford tutor , C.S. Lewis , dedicatee of his first book , The English Game ( 1948 ) , told him : ‘ Though never a cricket man , after reading your book I feel that I have enjoyed it all my life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 27 | I hope that I have encouraged you to get the pattern sheets , electronic pen and , if needed , cover-up strips set out on the table ready to draw a pattern . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over . |
| 29 | I do not think that I have fantasticated them , but time always supplies some element of fancy . |
| 30 | Rainbow admits that I have told her the tale of the Gittel affair , and why Anya called down the curse in the first place . |