Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
| 2 | Ballesteros described his 66 yesterday as ‘ the best round I 've played this year ’ . |
| 3 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 4 | The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8 ) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity . |
| 5 | ‘ I fear I have shocked you , Alice , ’ he was saying , albeit with a slight smile lifting the corners of his mouth , ‘ but as you know , the option of marriage is not open to us . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | but I , I 'd never get them done , and I mean I 'd fed Matthew and I shouted down and I said look you 'll have to come and get him dressed cos I 've got dinners to put up yet |
| 8 | Well I mean I 'd bought stuff they 'd all share . |
| 9 | I mean I 'd forgotten all about him but I can remember |
| 10 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 11 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 12 | I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] . |
| 13 | I mean I 've said to him answer him back like you would but he , he , the thing is he just thumps them , he just thumps and kicks and hits |
| 14 | Anyway , there we are , erm so I mean there are things like that also er we need to work out how we divvy up the exam fee , I mean I 've said to B A I E but they have n't so far |
| 15 | It 's changing drastically now and and erm er I mean I 've kept up to date with it now |
| 16 | so , I mean we 've erm , I mean I 've developed a relationship with David at Coslow |
| 17 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 18 | I mean I 've lived in here for the last fourtee thirteen years and I 've lived in Northern Ireland and Bradford and all sorts . |
| 19 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 20 | But there is I mean I 've assured him that things are being done . |
| 21 | I mean I 've stood on our our bridge and looked down . |
| 22 | I mean I 've heard representatives for County Council th this week saying that er as far as they were concerned th the standards were n't sufficiently low yet for them t to take action . |
| 23 | I mean I 've heard of the Four Horseman and the Apocalypse but I never know who wrote it . |
| 24 | I know , but , mum that , that was , that was five years ago , I mean I 've moved on a great deal since then |
| 25 | I was going to suggest that this is er , I mean I 've made a note of this question , that we ought to return to it next time |
| 26 | I mean I 've made one or two balls-ups before now . |
| 27 | Well possibly and less likely to enjoy it , I mean I 've made a complete failure of my life , so I 'm , I 'm not and I never really enjoyed from the beginning I must say |
| 28 | And that 's it , I mean I 've made it as plain as I can . |
| 29 | And that 's it , I mean I 've made it as plain as I can . |
| 30 | I mean I 've noticed , what falling over ? |