Example sentences of "[conj] i have [vb pp] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 2 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
| 3 | To tell you that I 've killed him ! ’ |
| 4 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 5 | ‘ If I do n't talk to you about your father , Alex , it is n't that I 've forgotten him , but Mr Morgan would n't like it . ’ |
| 6 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 7 | I always wish now that I 'd met him . |
| 8 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 9 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 10 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 11 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 12 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 13 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 14 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 15 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 16 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 17 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 18 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 19 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 20 | ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’ |
| 21 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that this is the first time that I have asked him a question since his appointment , and I intend to enjoy it ? |
| 22 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 23 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 24 | Tony more subdued than I 'd remembered him . |
| 25 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
| 26 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 27 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 28 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 29 | He 'd been all set to save England and I 'd stopped him . |
| 30 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |