Example sentences of "i have [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 You see I 've decided that I 'm going to leave Clinique the the expensive make-up er for some , you know until I get myself re-established financially .
2 ‘ I thought I 'd explained that I 'm doing it because I want to . ’
3 I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again .
4 Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera .
5 Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’
6 Oh , I 'd registered when I was eighteen , like everyone else .
7 I 'd imagined that they would eat food fit for pigs , and look upon our food with distaste .
8 Given our record , I 'd imagined that it would be impossible for us to spend a night under the same roof without spending it together .
9 Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you .
10 ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster .
11 Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat .
12 And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible .
13 ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’
14 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
15 When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well .
16 I 'd asked that he should n't be bottle fed with my expressed milk as it can be more difficult to establish breastfeeding if a baby is confused by a teat .
17 I 'd asked if he was an expert forger , and I would n't put it past him .
18 Interestingly enough , after I 'd announced that I was going to do this , my very first clients were all the star names who had asked about the sound I got when I was playing !
19 I felt helpless in the face of my own infantile bad temper and sulkiness ; I could remember exactly how I 'd felt when I was six , and somebody was trying to cajole me into doing something I did n't want to do … in a minute , I thought in some recess of my mind , I 'll be stamping and shouting , " Wo n't ! "
20 And scared again , like I 'd felt when I 'd woken before .
21 Up to virtually the last minute I 'd assumed that we , or at least yours truly , were going on the plane as well .
22 It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days .
23 Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway .
24 The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels .
25 Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I .
26 When I 'd finished and it was just the two of us left I put my arms around him and kissed his face .
27 But I 'd disappeared because I 'd a man shouting ‘ fruit and vegetables ’ ( in those days , you had to have your name and address on your cart ) .
28 My appointments and everything I 'd got before I came along and erm he went on to tell me , if company .
29 Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton .
30 Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies .
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