Example sentences of "[pron] 've [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've run 10.29secs with no special training and I 'd like to bring that down to around 10.19secs this year . |
2 | ‘ I 've run 10.29secs with no special training and I 'd like to bring that down to around 10.19secs this year . |
3 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |
4 | So I 've covered bits and pieces like that . |
5 | ‘ Oh yes , I 've covered inquests in my time , too . ’ |
6 | I 've hated dogs ever since . ’ |
7 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
8 | ‘ I 've sent men into the palace compound to find out which household she was from . ’ |
9 | I 've sent orders for the gates to be watched while Simon 's men round up the rest . ’ |
10 | I 've said things in there that I 'd rather not have fall into the hands of our enemies . ’ |
11 | Erm so as I 've said things go wrong . |
12 | Well as I 've said signs like that are illegal . |
13 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
14 | Getting pissed off trying to apply for jobs ( I have n't applied for any yet and I 've missed loads of deadlines ) just thought that somebody out there may have a high flying job for a graduate ( preferably in leeds ) that pays loads of money . |
15 | I 've written scenes , of course , in fact , in fact the idea is this . |
16 | I 've written macros to let me print each label with a unique number , set page lengths to the size of the labels plus the gutter between them — in short , I spent too long sorting the problem out , certainly more time than it was worth . |
17 | Previously I 've written songs about all these other subjects which personally affect me , but now I 'm thirtysomething and it may be down to a need to find out about and rationalise my environment , but these songs about Wales seem to be appearing . ’ |
18 | The training here is so hard , I 've lost 9lbs ! ’ |
19 | I 've lost 4ins ( 10cm ) all over and my friends can not believe it — they have all been buying your book ! |
20 | I , even as a friend and a colleague of the staff notice it strongly in little points of racism , all the time constantly there , it gets beyond a joke , I 've lost friends in the school or I do n't associate with certain members of staff purely because of the constant jibing which eventually gets beyond a joke . |
21 | I 've built plants and managed them . |
22 | ‘ I 've collected records since I was about 11 ’ , he says , confessing to an early case of the vinyl addiction that is a prerequisite for any DJ worth his or her Technics . |
23 | Erm I do n't know if I gave you , and if I did n't I need to , the things that I 've called recordings logs , that are different than meeting logs . |
24 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
25 | Now I 've played cards … |
26 | I 've played cards , in Spain … ’ |
27 | ‘ That 's why I 've kept changes to a minimum . ’ |
28 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
29 | ‘ I 've despatched copies of the files to your man . |
30 | In the past I 've prescribed steroids freely without thinking of their immunosupressant effects . |