Example sentences of "[noun] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 2 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 3 | That 's one of the reasons I 've carried on with mine . ’ |
| 4 | Going through all the blokes I 've got off with at home I bet . |
| 5 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 6 | We 're able to put up most of them , while the remainder I 've sent round to The Beach Hotel . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 8 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 9 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 10 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
| 11 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 12 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 13 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 14 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 15 | It 's all those stylists , wardrobe girls and make-up technicians I 've hung out with , plus my own pricey psychodramas on the topic . |
| 16 | ‘ Even though other bidders have reportedly put in lower bids I have pointed out to Hong Kong ministers that in the past some of those have not always been able to complete the job , ’ said Mr Lilley . |
| 17 | ‘ I understand people associating me with bands I 've worked on as an engineer , but I do n't understand why I am the only engineer in the world who 's expected to be discriminating about the bands he 's worked with … ’ |
| 18 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 19 | ’ Thank goodness I 've got through to you at last . |
| 20 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 21 | ‘ Listen , this is luxury to some of the places I 've dossed down in . ’ |
| 22 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 23 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |
| 24 | There used to be big families I 've seen down at there were six girls there . |
| 25 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 26 | And , that again , might be me but many of you when you 've heard me say it in a service I 've ended up with my asking at the end of a sermon asking the congregation to smile . |
| 27 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 28 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
| 29 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 30 | ‘ I just hope that after that build-up I 've lived up to my reputation ! ’ |