Example sentences of "[noun] i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your setting will be even more integrated into your book than was the setting in the sort of story I have called a backgrounder . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 3 | And during the past two decades of my involvement with the people of the Alto I have seen a discourse on nervos and sickness replace a discourse on angry hunger . |
| 4 | This evening I have attempted a contribution to the work by taking the Plowden propositions and suggesting that if they are true in theory they demand recognition in practice . |
| 5 | In the last few years I have done a lot of float fishing from a punt for big bream and I can state quite categorically that , if it is done correctly , it can be a most deadly method of catching bream . |
| 6 | For the past seven years I have run a job share register on behalf of the British Paediatric Association . |
| 7 | During the last two years I have spent a total of 15 minutes a day with my son 's diaper bucket and can deal quickly with even the most challenging mess . |
| 8 | Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well . |
| 9 | The Sea Rover episode was the only occasion I have known a smuggling vessel to be fired upon directly during my time with the customs , as a result of failing to heave-to for customs examination . |
| 10 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
| 11 | Q I have bought a pair ( ? ) of Green Terrors ( Aequidens rivulatus ) which are in a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank with undergravel filtration . |
| 12 | Q I have bought a plant called Impatiens congolensis , but ca n't find out anything about it . |
| 13 | By the use of the last phrase I have indicated a comparison that may possibly be drawn between Gandhi and Paul Tillich . |
| 14 | As a writer , reviewer and professional artist I have accumulated a collection of over 40 videos . |
| 15 | For this reason I have made a suggestion for eating on each journey . |
| 16 | I know too that you can never be with me here and for that reason I have taken a decision . |
| 17 | Elsewhere in this book I have identified a range of features — phonological , lexical and grammatical — which are characteristic of " London English " or of " Creole " . |
| 18 | In the latter account I have described a situation in which the major parties each have a reservoir of virtually guaranteed electoral support , based on the traditional connection between the parties and the two ‘ classes ’ of British society ( which I have termed ‘ social collectivities ’ to distinguish them from classes defined at the level of property relations ) , the ‘ middle class ’ and the ‘ working class ’ . |
| 19 | He had earlier held the blade to the throat of shopkeeper 's nephew Gursawak Singh , 19 , and snarled : ‘ Tell the police I have got a hostage . ’ |
| 20 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
| 21 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 22 | I have tried everywhere in the Legion , but every time I have hit a brick wall . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 25 | Indeed , this is the first time I have found a photographer reveal the position he was in when he took a particularly impressive shot of slime mould , for example . |
| 26 | I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep . |
| 27 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 28 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
| 29 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 30 | But in recompense I have received a gift worth more than all the rest put together . |