Example sentences of "[noun pl] i have [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 2 | That 's one of the reasons I 've carried on with mine . ’ |
| 3 | Going through all the blokes I 've got off with at home I bet . |
| 4 | Skirts have gone so much shorter — you 'd hardly believe the hems I 've taken up . |
| 5 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 6 | ‘ And I think , after all the hours I have put in for nothing teaching you to ride , that you owe it to me to do your level best to win this competition . |
| 7 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't count how many times I 've fallen down ! |
| 11 | Three times I 've come round here , and three times no one answered . |
| 12 | Many times I have sat down there amongst you the , the delegates , and seen the acti activists receive this , this award . |
| 13 | Provisions are , however , phrased differently from lease to lease and the tenant 's adviser will be expected to construe and amend the particular documentation accordingly , but perhaps considering the guidelines I have laid down . |
| 14 | As with other books I have collaborated on , I was particularly fortunate in having a co-author with whom I could work closely and well , though not without disagreements . |
| 15 | I soon discovered that the customers in that particular part of North London were very different to any of the other dozen or so Sainsbury 's shops I had worked in . |
| 16 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 17 | Some of the barriers I 've built up are going to be chipped away and it 's only going to take one incident and I 'm going to be stuffed . |
| 18 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 19 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 20 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 21 | It 's all those stylists , wardrobe girls and make-up technicians I 've hung out with , plus my own pricey psychodramas on the topic . |
| 22 | ‘ Even though other bidders have reportedly put in lower bids I have pointed out to Hong Kong ministers that in the past some of those have not always been able to complete the job , ’ said Mr Lilley . |
| 23 | ‘ I understand people associating me with bands I 've worked on as an engineer , but I do n't understand why I am the only engineer in the world who 's expected to be discriminating about the bands he 's worked with … ’ |
| 24 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 25 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 26 | Places I 've lived in |
| 27 | ‘ Listen , this is luxury to some of the places I 've dossed down in . ’ |
| 28 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 29 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 30 | for three years I 've fiddled around , doing small things , waiting for the Big Man to say the word . |