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

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1 THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one .
2 So with the particular diary system , I mean this , what I 've just said is about the whole course , but the particular diary , I would say get to grips with the diary first , and then you know , once you 're , you 're on , on , on tap with that , then get involved with the erm , project sheets and the project management forms .
3 ‘ The business I 've just bought is on the rocks , and you tell me that 's lucky ? ’
4 What I 've just described is a full and complete contract .
5 Er what I 've just described is a complete deal so that
6 You know that all I 've ever wanted is your happiness .
7 There might be bits of those bands in there , as far as influences go — music I 've heard — because all music I 've ever heard is obviously an influence .
8 I work with people on a one-to-one basis and the most I 've ever done is ten sessions with anyone .
9 I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy .
10 The worse thing I 've ever done is wax for my legs I did it once mhm
11 saw , which er , is obvious a machine , they even had band saws apparently at the end of the last century , cabinet makers band saws oh I 've never seen , all I 've ever seen is the big ones for mills you know the logs , these ones for er , obviously for timber erm
12 You know , when all I 've ever known is plus is this way , negative this way , it 's either that way or that way , you know .
13 I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings .
14 The view I 've always expressed is that he is an extremely good footballer .
15 ‘ All I 've really got is a very deep flesh wound .
16 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
17 What I have just summarised is the ‘ standard account ’ of gender to be found in grammatical textbooks .
18 It can be seen that the entire reasoning of the passage I have just quoted is based on a misconception of the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates , ’ and that misconception springs from the misconceived argument and counter-argument at p. 377 of the judgment .
19 The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally .
20 Admittedly , the situation I have just outlined is more apparent in the internal affairs of present-day societies — and even then principally in the Western democracies — than in the relations between nations , in spite of the persistent , and not wholly unsuccessful , attempts to create an effective framework of international law and procedures of negotiation .
21 The more generalized view which I have thus adopted is that we have goals which relate to our work .
22 The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before .
23 The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully .
24 An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life .
25 A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options .
26 What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime .
27 While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys .
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