Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 2 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 3 | I have to wait for a white actor to turn down a role because the stuff that they 're supposedly writing ‘ black ’ ai n't happenin' . |
| 4 | I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time . |
| 5 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 6 | This case raises serious and complex moral issues and I have asked for a detailed study of the House of Lords judgement in the light of Catholic moral teaching . |
| 7 | ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area . |
| 8 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 9 | I thank you Chair , I mean , clearly I have to ask for a little bit of license on this one , in that I have to comment on things outside of my own district , erm but you will not be surprised to hear , given my evidence earlier that the City Council 's view is quite clearly that there is sufficient land with , on the edge of York , the main urban area , which could accommodate this type of level of development and obviate the need for a new settlement in the structure plan period , I accept , however , of course that that is dependant upon the definition of the inner boundary of the greenbelt , if the City Council 's view on that is er acceptable then Inspector , I believe there will be sufficient sites to obviate the the need for a new settlement , clearly if the Inspector takes a tighter view on the greenbelt , then there will be little land opportunity within the main urban area for this . |
| 10 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 11 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 12 | I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me . |
| 13 | In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached . |
| 14 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 15 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 16 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 17 | I am proud of what I have done as a practising solicitor and I expect all other solicitors feel the same . |
| 18 | The original engine I have kept as a spare and would like to convert it to run on unleaded petrol , could you please inform me where to get drawings or information on conversion . |
| 19 | Like in confession when I tell Father McCormack that I have sinned in a personal manner — I do n't tell him I 'm having it off , do I ? |
| 20 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 21 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 22 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 23 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 24 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 25 | I have appointed to a new post — the director general of resettlement — Major-General Burden who has returned from the British Army on the Rhine . |
| 26 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 27 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 28 | I think I have changed from a front-foot player in the 2nds to a back-foot player in the first team — through necessity really . ’ |
| 29 | It may be objected that my argument defines individualism too narrowly ; for rather than contrasting the properties of individuals as such with those of social wholes , I have focussed on a particular range of traits , and in doing so may be said to have neglected properties to which the individualist can legitimately appeal . |
| 30 | I have left behind a perfect segment of the universe we inhabit so blindly . |