Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value .
2 Granted that I have spent a considerable portion of my theoretical energies over the years criticizing reductionism , should I even be asking this question at all ?
3 But having sa said that I have to share with you the a key element er , in the life of the church has been the ordained Ministry of Word and Sacrament and pastoral care .
4 It will be seen that I have to arrive at figures in respect of damages in this case under a number of heads .
5 ‘ No decision about the meeting will be made until I have had talks with those responsible for organising the group 's itinerary , but we are not at all happy with the decision to meet Sinn Fein . ’
6 ‘ I 'll be ruined if I have to pay ! ’
7 On the other hand , I am a girl who likes a bit of old-fashioned interest taken in her , and I do get cheesed when I have to take second place , especially when it 's to a dead widow of seventy-odd … ’
8 ‘ I have given and I have taken — and that is eternal .
9 ‘ My ability to concentrate is limited and I have to avoid stressful situations , which is why , for example , I have not given media interviews .
10 Lest it be thought that I have singled out young persons as a special problem , let me hasten to add that I think that the behaviour of youth cultures has to be seen as a mirror image of the adult society .
11 Er I think our position is that we provide as you know , air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting , particularly er as it affects U K air defence , we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer , that is the M sound system to which you refer , is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and I have to emphasise it 's not been abandoned .
12 " My parents have died and I have come to be your wife , " she told the fisherman .
13 Montgomery said that the spring offensive of 1943 was ‘ the heaviest and most savage fighting we have had since I have commanded the Eighth Army ’ .
14 He said : ‘ I 'm delighted with the work he has done in training and the commitment he has shown when I have asked him to play . ’
15 My initial instinct is to move a couple of hundred yards or so but some of my most memorable catches have occurred when I have moved only a couple of swims further down the drain .
16 I spoke not to an individual child but to the head of school in Hatfield where the scheme was piloted and I have to say he was , he neither rhapsodised nor condemned .
17 Turning , planing , routing and so on generate vast quantities of shaving , and I have found that I have to empty my 17 litre wet and dry vacuum cleaner at frequent intervals .
18 But I feel that never can I join you , for I have found that I have left my training so late that it is ‘ work or else ! ’
19 Do n't get settled cos I have to go toilet .
20 Blanks were also stocked and I have seen a printed example to Shrewsbury .
21 Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’
22 For all the others have taken their gifts and gone and I have come to look for him . "
23 ‘ Look not so dismayed , I pray you — or it will be construed that I have made some unwelcome proposal . ’
24 It has meant that I have sampled virtually every type of hotel/guest house accommodation imaginable and this I present as part of my qualification to address the subject in question .
25 I want to question my belief , so that what is left after I have questioned it , will be even stronger . ’
26 And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going .
27 This has also happened when I have fed the fish .
28 However , my hon. Friend can be assured that I have listened attentively to what he has said and his points will be considered carefully before a decision is made on whether the application should be called in .
29 Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked ,
30 The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment .
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