Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 32 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 34 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 35 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 36 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 37 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 38 | I had never knelt down in front of anyone . |
| 39 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 40 | In the previous two seasons , while I was serving my ban , both Mike Gatting and I had sometimes gone out of our way to push Tuffers in county matches at my expense . |
| 41 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 42 | I suppose , by saying this I 've already gone back on my word . |
| 43 | But by by the same token , as as I 've already set out in in my submission , we we believe there is an urgent need and a justifiable demand in Selby District and that 's partly related to the need to have a distribution of available employment opportunities throughout the district . |
| 44 | on the faxes , just erm one item that came up really from yesterday which I 've already passed on to , to Sheila from the south cos it was raised at the south meeting but I think it 's relevant to everybody . |
| 45 | and I 've not come back till twelve ! |
| 46 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 47 | See , and I 've just made out of the stomach . |
| 48 | Decisions decisions decisions — I 've never made any decisions on my own before , I 've just gone along with what everyone said . |
| 49 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 50 | You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’ |
| 51 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 52 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 53 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 54 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 55 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 56 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 57 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 58 | I said , ‘ Look , you know I 've just come out of Holloway after being on remand . ’ |
| 59 | I 've just come out of hospital . |
| 60 | ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs . |