Example sentences of "[subord] i have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 2 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 3 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 4 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 5 | " Sooner than I 'd meant it to , " Sara said a little ruefully . |
| 6 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 8 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 11 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 12 | " Ah , so I 've found you at last ! " |
| 13 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 14 | He is n't here , so I have to take you to the hotel myself . |
| 15 | And one other thing : when I take my three-year-old daughter out , the child seat gets pushed sideways by the back-seat cushion , so I have to straighten it by putting a book under it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll give her up once I 've taken you to bed , Rachel , and not before ! ’ |
| 17 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 20 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 21 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 22 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 23 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's ridiculous , I know , but I feel as if I should know her , as if I 've seen her before somewhere . ’ |
| 25 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 26 | Now I 'm standing here in this thing and I do n't even know if I 've got it on back to front or not . ’ |
| 27 | If I got it lying , where , if I 've got it in the bank and it 's there ready it 's , there 's nay problem is there ? |
| 28 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 29 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 30 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |