Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i 've [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Eleven bloody hours I 've driven today . |
2 | Le Rue the band are one of the tightest and most cohesive units I 've seen . |
3 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
4 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
5 | Yeah , you know those heeled shoes I 've got ? |
6 | Of all the men of different nationalities I 've met and of all types , I have found good and bad in each , but my favourite still remains the Frenchman , because he can lie so convincingly . |
7 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
8 | I 'm afraid it 's a good deal classier than the tumble-down old Pullmans I 've found for the rest of you . ’ |
9 | ‘ I ca n't compare her with any of the top horses I 've trained because I just do n't know how good she is . |
10 | Well I shall want something because there are all those French photographs I 've got . |
11 | oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus |
12 | Yet of all the lame ducks I 've met or heard of , she 's the lamest . |
13 | Twenty and thirty-pound nets are not uncommon and long ago I lost count of the double-figure nets I 've had from the rivers named above and others such as the Vyrnwy and Banwy , two small rivers which feed the upper Severn . |
14 | So if I work any extra Saturdays I 've got ta wait till next Ap till April |
15 | to do with the what the well we 've got instead of all these individual prints I 've got I 've got long ones cos if the |
16 | In my opinion all this talk about wanting Leeds to lose on Sunday is the most amazing bollocks I 've heard on the list . |
17 | I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility . |
18 | " Go and tell that to the extra men I 've hired . |
19 | you know those little bottles I 've got about that big ? |
20 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
21 | Yesterday Sergeant Paul Cassell , of Reading police , said : ‘ This is one of the most sickening attacks I 've come across . |
22 | I hope you 'll forgive the little deceptions I 've practised on you . |
23 | But , but I had more to do with her than Evelyn but er from what little bits I 've gleaned , you know , er I 'm a bit into everything like , and I seem to think , I 've got a f strange feeling that she 's something to do with education and they 're worried about children not speaking properly eventu |
24 | Now these are little ones I 've grown in the greenhouse myself . |
25 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
26 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
27 | And for several myopic , workaholic years I 've believed they were still white , have n't I ? |
28 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
29 | You love me — even after all the terrible things I 've done ? |
30 | contentious items I 've suggested five D and eleven eleven |