Example sentences of "i have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 2 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |
| 3 | I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more . |
| 4 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 5 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 6 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 7 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 8 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 9 | I therefore associated towns with tin roofs and thatched huts ; in Jibuti , Berbera and Aden I had seen no memorable buildings . |
| 10 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 11 | ( I had dreaded the other meetings with her too , had n't I. Yes I had . ) |
| 12 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 13 | I had heard no human footfalls in the corridor . |
| 14 | In the first year of preparation , despite writing over nine hundred letters , I had acquired no major backers . |
| 15 | I had opened the louvred shutters and let in the real sun . |
| 16 | All my life I had chosen the soft options : good times , good company , good fun . |
| 17 | Quite evidently when I had performed the various therapies I had n't performed them properly . |
| 18 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 19 | At that stage in my life , I had had no real careers guidance and had very little idea of what I wanted to do or what I was capable of . |
| 20 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 21 | I 've lost the flipping names again ! |
| 22 | And I 've disabled the Tertiary Controls , of course . |
| 23 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 24 | But I 've seen the wee girls stop at Eileen 's saying |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen the old maps . |
| 26 | I 've seen the little bottles . |
| 27 | I still care about the chimps ; I 've met the flipping things ’ . ’ |
| 28 | I have lived in the same flat for 2½ years , and so far I 've made no new friends at all . |
| 29 | I think I 've made the relevant points that others may have missed . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've read the German papers and there 's nothing been said , so we do n't think they 've made the connection . |