Example sentences of "the [noun] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 2 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 3 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 4 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 5 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 6 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
| 8 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 9 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 10 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 11 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 12 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 13 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 14 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 15 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 16 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 17 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 18 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 19 | The card I had was a 2,400bps ( bits per second ) data modem , and a 9,600bps Class 2 fax modem . |
| 20 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 21 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 22 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 23 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 24 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 25 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 26 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 27 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 28 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 29 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 30 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |