Example sentences of "[conj] i have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
2 | You 're a wonderful s you 're a wonderful speaker but wait til I 've finished . |
3 | oh hang on a minute , wait til I 've finished please |
4 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
5 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
6 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
7 | I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe . |
8 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
9 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
10 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
11 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
12 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
13 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
14 | Having reached the centre of the town , I hobbled back to the north of it , where I had seen vehicles waiting for the filling station to open . |
15 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
16 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
17 | As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition . |
18 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
19 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
20 | I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place . |
21 | The ferry for the outer isles was due to leave at six on the following morning , so I checked into the waterfront hotel where I had booked , then spent the day exploring Oban , and went to bed early . |
22 | I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides . |
23 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
24 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
25 | In reality , I was back where I had started — in a position of helplessness and hopelessness — but with one important exception . |
26 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
27 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
28 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
29 | I knew he was under contract to Warners , where I had worked . |
30 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |