Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather planned on going to bed tonight aching with the satisfaction of revenge , not laughter . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 3 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 4 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 5 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 6 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 7 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 8 | ‘ I had n't planned on going back tonight . ’ |
| 9 | Well as I say I had n't , I had n't planned on going anywhere . |
| 10 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |
| 11 | Coffee , croissants and the morning papers had seemed very attractive on setting out , but I had n't bargained on being stuck for ages in Kilburn on the way home . |
| 12 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 13 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 14 | If I had n't insisted on you going along on the drop we would have absolutely no proof that it had ever taken place ! |
| 15 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 16 | So I , foolishly , welcomed the invention of the tough trail bike , designed as it is to handle exactly the kind of unmetalled forest trails and dirt tracks I had previously navigated on something the grocer 's boy in a Hovis advert would have ridden . |
| 17 | At great expense to ourselves , Father and I had finally arrived on the very threshold of Bukit Tengah , the Middle Mountain , and this difficult little man and his black kid were refusing to proceed . |
| 18 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 19 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 20 | If I had not intervened on these pages to explain a few points this book ( or its opening section ) would be a gun aimed at my own temple . |
| 21 | I regarded this as totally unfair since in my comments I had not picked on any particular individual . |
| 22 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 23 | Andrea Godfrey , 25 , who comes from Darlington and works for a London-based advertising agency , said : ‘ I had just got on the train when I heard this tremendous bang . |
| 24 | Glancing round , I saw I had just passed on the roadside a farm cottage — from which a young woman in an apron , her attention no doubt aroused by the horn , had come running . |
| 25 | Back in England , I had always looked on people who went round with no shoes on as crackpots and show-offs , on a par with youths who wore shirtsleeves in midwinter . |
| 26 | The chair I had supposedly used on the policeman had disappeared , obviously thrown away . |
| 27 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 28 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 29 | I said as how I 'd see you through the move and I 've already stayed on longer , just to help out , like . ’ |
| 30 | O o o o order , the honourable gentleman will recall that er in an earlier point of order I 've already ruled on that matter . |