Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of a journalistic investigation I have met people who have spent £12000 on treatment by clinical ecologists and have remortgaged their homes — usually at the therapist 's suggestion — to raise the money . |
| 2 | I mean I have met people who really objected strongly to transcribing swearing . |
| 3 | I have met people from Africa , Europe and all over the world . |
| 4 | I have heard people describe the moment , when setting sail in a ship , when one finally loses sight of the land . |
| 5 | I have heard people describe their involvement in AIDS support groups in the same terms as people used to describe their involvement in the Gay Liberation Movement . |
| 6 | " I have heard people speak of her , Mother . |
| 7 | ‘ And I have heard people keeping your name alive all the years you 've been away . |
| 8 | I have given people lifts , and will continue to do so ’ . |
| 9 | I have seen people close to tears as they own up to being over 50 . |
| 10 | P.C. Well , Sir , I have always endeavoured to keep my beat clean , and I have seen people committing perhaps but technical offences , but I have not thought them sufficiently serious to caution them . |
| 11 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I have seen people badly hurt in the sport , broken arms and fingers , gouged eyes , but when that happens it 's because people are n't doing it right . |
| 13 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 14 | Look , I have seen people surprised in my time . |
| 15 | I have seen people very surprised . |
| 16 | Some people may sprint when they run , but I have seen people running for the bus who could not be described as sprinting . |
| 17 | I have interviewed people who had spent 30 years in a big bureaucracy who said that the 6-month development task force was the only thing they were excited by and the only thing they would be remembered for — change was their mark on the organization . |
| 18 | ‘ I have had people like Cilla Black and Petula Clarke fall into my arms in floods of tears after they 've come off from that one . |
| 19 | I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back . |
| 20 | Ahm well I have had uh yeah I mean I have had people if I 'd really wanted to but I mean we 've had baby sitters and things like that . |
| 21 | I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot . |
| 22 | So often , I have watched people pick over one of our litters , sometimes nervous or apologetic for taking so long . |