Example sentences of "[noun sg] i have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 3 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 4 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 5 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 6 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 7 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 8 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 10 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 11 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 12 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 13 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 14 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 15 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 17 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 18 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 19 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 20 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 21 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 22 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 23 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 24 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 25 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 26 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 27 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 28 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 29 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |