Example sentences of "[noun sg] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 2 | We 're able to put up most of them , while the remainder I 've sent round to The Beach Hotel . ’ |
| 3 | So far from convincing Karen she was wrong , by the Sunday afternoon I had come round to her point of view . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ’ Thank goodness I 've got through to you at last . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 12 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I just hope that after that build-up I 've lived up to my reputation ! ’ |
| 14 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 15 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 16 | On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed . |
| 17 | Er and that 's I think the basis of the erm strategy I 've set out in my statement to the examination in public . |
| 18 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 19 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 20 | Every man I have written about in this book , when he had made or married his fortune , built a new house or radically re-modelled an old one in the fashion of the moment . |
| 21 | Ironside , who produced a string of spectacular saves , said : ‘ That 's the best performance I 've put up in front of the television cameras and such a big crowd . ’ |
| 22 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 23 | Opposite the front door I had come in by was a staircase which I proceeded to climb . |
| 24 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 25 | After lots of thought I 've come up with this solution and hope it will be helpful to others . |
| 26 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 27 | Well at various times in my life I 've come back to Kingston and I first of all used to see peo girls who were at school with me . |
| 28 | If there 's one thing I 've learned out of the past six years , it 's that anybody can get out of anything if they try hard enough . ’ |
| 29 | And he hit back , saying : ‘ Maybe the British Athletic Federation should have shown me a bit of respect and credit after all the effort I 've put in for them this year . |
| 30 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |