Example sentences of "[subord] i have [verb] [pron] [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 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 3 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 4 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " Sooner than I 'd meant it to , " Sara said a little ruefully . |
| 7 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 13 | Legato does n't have its own INI file , but a lot of applications do have their own , so I 've created one in C : \WINDOWS ( the usual place ) so that we can enjoy deleting it . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 15 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 16 | " Ah , so I 've found you at last ! " |
| 17 | I was a fanatical record collector ; I 've got six to seven thousand records so I 've got plenty of places to look for ideas . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | He is n't here , so I have to take you to the hotel myself . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll give her up once I 've taken you to bed , Rachel , and not before ! ’ |
| 23 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 26 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 27 | By my reckoning , if I 'd steered anything like a true course , the Land Rover was way along the road to the right , but it was pointless and impossible to reach it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 30 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |