Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [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 had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 3 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 4 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 5 | Now since I 've just about learnt the difference between the sharp end and the blunt end of a boat , I 've decided to go straight to the top and get some expert advice from the R Y A and who better than the R Y A's national coach John , Hi John . |
| 6 | I 've decided to go ahead on both projects , Miss … |
| 7 | He lifted her arm and kissed each mark , before saying : ‘ If it 's any help , I 've wanted to die ever since … |
| 8 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 9 | I 've managed to stay straight to day . |
| 10 | So far , I 've managed to get away with it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This is the first opportunity I 've had to get away from Josh and the director . |
| 12 | I 've learned to cry silently during movies . |
| 13 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 15 | I 've I 've got an appointment in London at five o'clock so I 've got to leave here at about quarter to three . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got to try again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't want her to end up with the sort of empty life I 've got to look forward to . |
| 18 | ‘ But that disappointment has gone and now I 've got to look forward to my time at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | And I 've got to get there on time , too , or Elise will go up the wall . ’ |
| 20 | He says my mum used to take me everywhere I wanted to go but she ca n't anymore so I 've got to get there by bus or by bike . |
| 21 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 22 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 23 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |