Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 5 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 6 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 7 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 8 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 9 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 10 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 11 | I wonder if that washing 's done , let's have a look , I have to go out in the shed and get the erm no its not er , its not finished yet |
| 12 | I have to go back in the morning and I must have you with me . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |