Example sentences of "[noun pl] i 've [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do realize that there are problems in finding suitable sites and that possibly that costs would be involved in setting them up , but for the reasons I 've outlined we should take the bull by the horns and make an effort to find sites and budget for the costs involved so the benefits can be felt as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Erm , we hope that you will come back soon , because for all the reasons I 've outlined it 's tremendously important to us and it 's nice to have a body of , a big large body of trade unions in the city in terms of our feelings as , as local trade unions as well . |
| 3 | Well I knew , when I was in , when we were at Donnington , living at Donnington , a couple of blokes I 've known there 's company sergeant majors and regimental sergeant majors in the Signals , I was walking through shed four , one day , I was doing , doing some mucking about with these folding boats for the RE 's |
| 4 | But er because I 've had requests I 've approached them and said , Well we 'll get your documents released and see see if we can speed matters up because use your experience . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 7 | ‘ And what about all the times I 've asked your advice while you were doing your yard work ? ’ he teased . |
| 8 | All the times I 've played it , have you only just noticed ? |
| 9 | No , I 'm sorry three times I 've said it , it is not make a face at the end of the chorus , it 's there it , and there is just one way , the chorus says if you want to be happy and have a happy face and spread a little joy around then there is just one way , then you make the face |
| 10 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |
| 11 | He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past . |
| 12 | Teacher never had a moment 's peace with him , and I could n't count the number of times I 've seen him waiting outside the headmaster 's study . |
| 13 | You 've no idea how many times I 've willed myself not to say that — and won . ’ |
| 14 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 15 | Several times I 've spotted him going into a building further up Fleet Street . |
| 16 | Difference between executors and administrators I 've mentioned it briefly before , executors are carrying out the will , administrators are dealing with an estate where there is no will . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 18 | Because without those eleven appointments I 've calculated I might have two blow outs , two people might want to rearrange , two people want to think about it , I 've got to have my eleven , to make my two sales . |
| 19 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 20 | For many years I 've hated you and it seems so — pointless . ’ |
| 21 | And for several myopic , workaholic years I 've believed they were still white , have n't I ? |
| 22 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 23 | Of course , over the years I 've got it down to a fine art . |
| 24 | However , for the past two years I 've dedicated myself to it in total and , like yours , my trade has mushroomed . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 27 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 28 | ‘ All these years I 've known her and I never realised what a nasty temper she has , ’ said Rose . |
| 29 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 30 | Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . " |