Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
| 2 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 3 | I feel I 've developed morally to become capable of things I could never have dreamed of before . |
| 4 | Interruptions are not always a curse ; I sometimes find that a lost association breaks the surface for air precisely when I 've stopped actively thinking about the writing . |
| 5 | Which although I 've heard before does say something about them … also , I met a few of them on the train up from London … |
| 6 | On arrival together , it is appropriate to encourage one another saying , as it were , ‘ Come on friends , let's do what we 've come here to do . ’ |
| 7 | He says er er and he says me pal did n't come , he said , Well , I thought well I 've come here to do it , and I 'm going . |
| 8 | Getting no response , she went on a shade breathlessly , ‘ I 've come here to do a catalogue raisonné , and help make the arrangements for mounting an exhibition of his sculpture . ’ |
| 9 | I 've come here to do a job I very much want to do , but I refuse to stay and … ’ |
| 10 | I 've a fair idea , ’ and here he smiled a benign leer which long ago Mary had learned to repulse but still — unawares — could cause her to coil up in herself in shame , ‘ they 've come here express to see the Beauty . ’ |
| 11 | Silas , dear — I 've come here to spend time with you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come here to restore your judgement , ’ she said . |
| 13 | But that I 'm so glad you 've come here to see to his personal effects this way ? |
| 14 | You 've come here to take up with Sergius ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 've come here to pry , have n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you 've come here to pry … ’ |
| 17 | We 've come here to live . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've come here to ask you to direct operations from on board the train . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The question seeks to establish whether you 've come here to overthrow the Government of the United States . ’ |
| 20 | I 've come here to have my portrait taken by Mr Butcher . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I felt unfortunate to lose that tournament but it told me I was good enough to win a major and I 've come here hitting the ball as well as I ever have . ’ |
| 22 | 7 As an adjunct expressing purpose : They 've come here to work . |
| 23 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've come here to tell you something , ’ he said shortly . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've come ter ask yer , if we car n't 'ave the 'all , would yer be kind enough ter lend us some crocks an' chairs ? |
| 25 | ‘ 'E finks we 've come ter put the tent up ! ’ he hissed . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've come ter bring yer shoes back . |
| 27 | cos they 've come now have n't they ? |
| 28 | We 've come aboard to help you . |
| 29 | The earliest example I 've come across involves a banjo player named Patti , who recorded two numbers like this in Brunswick 's New York studio in June 1932 . |
| 30 | There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . ) |