Example sentences of "i have often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often referred to my own fear when I was first required to make a horse jump a fence . |
| 2 | I would enter a plea that I have often made that the street officer 's authority … and discretion should be given better recognition . |
| 3 | Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set . |
| 4 | I have often expressed my view that object-relations exist from the beginning of life , the first object being the mother 's breast which to the child becomes split into a good ( gratifying ) and bad ( frustrating ) breast ; this splitting results in the severance of love and hate . |
| 5 | There is a lot of racism in the school , and I have often believed that a lot of multicultural talk should start with the staff before it starts with the pupils . |
| 6 | I have often said to the orchestra , especially to the younger players , ‘ Do your best , and love what you are doing , because you are allowed to do this thing . ’ |
| 7 | I will own that I have often said and lamented that the library was not fit to be seen … |
| 8 | So we must get to work on Altdeutsche Malerei [ German Renaissance paintings , before 1550 ] , as I have often said and done in the past . |
| 9 | As I have often said in these ‘ Notes ’ , Athletico is a forward-looking club and so thoughts must now turn to next season . |
| 10 | As I have often said , I believe that Israel within her pre-1967 frontiers is a democracy , which is not true of many , if any , other states in that part of the world , but she is not a democracy in so far as the occupied territories are concerned . |
| 11 | I have often succumbed to the graceful , bronzed beauty of Michael Deere and Terence Wade 's limbs as they power into action and imagine not John Motson or Alan Hansen commentating on another blistering attack , but David Attenborough in mildly hushed tones , comparing our boys with leaping gazelles or sprightly cheetahs . |
| 12 | ‘ Y freely confess I have often dismissed your opinions as mere intuition . |
| 13 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 14 | But I have often felt that the concern expressed over this issue is actually only addressing those problems associated with animal species . |
| 15 | I have often felt an uncomfortable sense of voyeurism over Oprah Winfrey 's machine-tooled confessionals . |
| 16 | … as I have often noted in this diary , Harold [ Wilson ] is extraordinarily sensitive on the issue of Party pledges , and when I approached him privately he said , ‘ This is a party pledge which has to be fulfilled ’ . |
| 17 | This is a vanity I have often noted in writers ; the more eminent the writer , the more pronounced this vanity is likely to be . |
| 18 | I have often heard things like : ‘ You know , I think that bird really missed my husband . |
| 19 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 20 | and even this early in the song , I have often heard Madame falter and stop , and just open her arms towards us , palms outwards , in a simple refusal to sing , just letting Gary carry the phrase on the piano — and of course we all knew the words anyway and so could hear them even when she was n't singing , sometimes you 'd hear the whole crowd singing almost inaudibly along with her . |
| 21 | I have often heard this said as a last-ditch attempt by adults to find consolation or uplift from a dreich church service or one in which the sermon was the dominant factor and was long-winded or incomprehensible or both . |
| 22 | I have often heard her crying at night . |
| 23 | The charge I have often heard when working overseas that ‘ school is boring ’ is a comment on the quality of life in the classroom . |
| 24 | These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it . |
| 25 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 26 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 27 | The very next piece of text in it is the song ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , which is not in the score — though we know it was sung in the 1692 production because it is in the Select Songs . |
| 28 | And this would explain a further problem affecting the order of things in the quarto : this song comes between the Dialogue of Coridon and Mopsa — the Haymakers ' scene — and the Dance of Haymakers which directly follows it in the score and belongs to it musically in every way : both are in G major and a quick 6/4 , and share the same bucolic atmosphere as well as their thematic material , whereas ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ is a sophisticated song in C major and stately triple time . |
| 29 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 30 | E is a badly muddled sheet , as we saw : missing ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ and the last four lines of Coridon and Mopsa , with ‘ When I have often heard ’ squeezed in , and the Dance of Haymakers misplaced . |