Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was it like climbing somewhere no-one had ever explored before ? |
| 2 | I work with people on a one-to-one basis and the most I 've ever done is ten sessions with anyone . |
| 3 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the most I have ever felt nerves , ’ he was later to say . |
| 5 | Those last two miles were the longest I 've ever had to run ! ’ |
| 6 | Right I 've just spoken . |
| 7 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 8 | Thanks very much I 've just earned my commission . |
| 9 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 11 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 12 | Basically it 's just basically I 've just got ta leave it recording |
| 13 | ‘ Basically I have just put everything on hold for a year . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've seen all his films except Do Me A Favour ! which funnily enough I 've never managed to catch although it 's on TV all the time . |
| 15 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 16 | After all , you make the same unrealistic demands on me sometimes , and I 'm not perfect either — only I 've never confronted you with the unreasonableness of it all . ’ |
| 17 | Erm I only I 've only recorded one side . |
| 18 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been taught to believe that there are — perhaps I 've even seen it , but I do n't know , ’ Sophia protested . |
| 20 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
| 21 | Perhaps I am dreaming , he thought , perhaps I have simply conjured him up . |
| 22 | Obviously I 've never met him . |
| 23 | Personally I 've always enjoyed meeting the passengers socially . |
| 24 | Personally I have always agreed with that , but I can not now simply substitute my judgment for that of the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe . |
| 25 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 26 | So I had crudely skinned the dead creature , and was holding its armoured hide above me , before the shower began in earnest . |
| 27 | So I 've probably got it , |
| 28 | So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need |
| 29 | So I 've just strained something ? |
| 30 | So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ? |