Example sentences of "[pron] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But if any of the women folks which I 've gone out with a a bowl of soup to him many a time .
2 For instance , he has a new ball , which I 've warmed up in my pockets , every third hole , and I know all his likes and dislikes .
3 But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created .
4 It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
5 I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber .
6 After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time .
7 This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween .
8 The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant .
9 Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak .
10 Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office .
11 I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank .
12 It is clear from the more general observations which I have set out with regard to the actual concept of establishment within the meaning of the E.E.C .
13 He concluded — on broadly similar grounds to those which I have set out in this judgment — that the jurisdiction of the court was purely supervisory , or , in other words , that the decision of the local authority on the suitability of the accommodation provided could only be challenged by way of proceedings for judicial review .
14 Material which I have tried out in schools with different teachers has yielded fascinatingly different results .
15 I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA .
16 The tank is large one — 56″ × 15″ × 36 ’ , but the Oscar has killed everything I have put in for company — even after going to great lengths to see if they 'll get on .
17 Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example .
18 They can go on the hippy trail up the coast — that 's something I have missed out on .
19 And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want .
20 ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage .
21 In fact , Paul Hogan does n't know what I 've gone through for him .
22 Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose .
23 What I 've run out of are words that would describe a man like you without — without blistering the paint on these walls ! ’
24 Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it
25 I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning .
26 That 's what I 've come round for !
27 Yeah that 's what I 've come in for twenty for .
28 See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ?
29 This is what I had set out for last week . ’
30 ‘ Not by comparison with what I have endured up to now , ’ Theda said quietly .
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