Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 2 | I 'd joined in trying to control the thing by now as Gillian found she could n't manage curves on her own . |
| 3 | They made no effort to withdraw , or temper their gaze or remarks , and I struggled to maintain the sort of meditational dispassion which I 'd observed in my cat on its box . |
| 4 | No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything . |
| 5 | Wisps of rumour I 'd heard in the cafes started to fall together . |
| 6 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 7 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 8 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 10 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 11 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |
| 12 | Then a film that I 'd made in India opened , and the producer of the film gave me a list of agents ' names , and said , ‘ You are going to be a star . |
| 13 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 14 | Now that the little spot of reality I 'd made in this mean city has been so lightly abandoned by those I 'd thought it would be safe with — but you wo n't catch me compromising with the lackeys . |
| 15 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was because I could n't stop myself , because I was driven by the need to know if what I 'd felt in Sintra had been real and still existed . |
| 17 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 18 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 19 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 20 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 21 | On the other side of the road lived another Brit I 'd met in France . |
| 22 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 23 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I came down on impulse , but as soon as I got here I wished I 'd stayed in the house . |
| 25 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 26 | Then I met my husband and was sure I 'd fallen in love with him because he cared so much . |
| 27 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 28 | It did n't take me long to realise I 'd fallen in love with love rather than with Dave . ’ |
| 29 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 30 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |