Example sentences of "what i have [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , what I 'd got was a bag of clothes for Caroline to try
2 ‘ He appreciates what others in the team are doing for him , because what I 've done is pick a team around him , ’ explained Taylor .
3 Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that .
4 Erm , what I 've done is I 've asked for quotes from three companies er to see how much work , how much it 'll cost us to take this action .
5 Erm , what I 've done is , I 've put a label in the cell .
6 I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
7 What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good .
8 Erm so what I 've done is said , Are these for use in U K or export ? and these are for use in the U K. Right so I 've said well we 'll probably give you a price relating to that then .
9 And what I 've done is I 've kind of just sown the seed
10 what I 've done is I 've put like erm the year , the year and the make of the month , right
11 What I 've done is I 've got extra extra large
12 Oh I have really , not , what I 've done is I 've taped one , one whole side and then I taped over it again by mistake
13 What I 've done was three minus ten seven .
14 Yes er that 's been the essence of what I 've wanted is er I 've , I 've had to have what I 've wanted by hook or by crook , and I do n't mean crook in a bad sense , I mean one way or another , you know what I mean and er I did job for the casters , same as they did jobs for me , you know and that 's how I 've gone through life , that is Michael .
15 And what I 've asked is that they actually did and not separate it .
16 Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’
17 Doubtless you will find yourself in positions where what I 've said is worse than useless , and facing foes who have thought of tricks I would never have dreamed of .
18 And what I 've said is I , I am in a sense acting as devil 's advocate .
19 She 's not in pain sitting in the foyer so what I 've said is you 'll look at her at break time .
20 What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut .
21 So what I 've written is babies prior to birth do not control their temperature , they have the ability to control their temperature because that 's a little space in the brain , but they do n't need to use it .
22 I find much of what I 've heard is implausible .
23 And what I 've noticed is I 've seen my bed linen .
24 He admitted : ‘ What I 've learned is that I was too complacent going into this competition .
25 With cancer , what I 've known is people gradually having bits of them taken away until their bowels are not working any more and they ca n't breathe and so on and so on .
26 What I 've found is that there 's a lot more complexity and problems in happiness , many more layers , than I 'd imagined .
27 What I 've found is a far younger element in the audience .
28 When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar .
29 District councillor S. Carmedy immediately sprang to his feet and proclaimed that what I had said was untrue .
30 His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals .
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