Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements . |
| 3 | Lineker was disappointed and said : ‘ The funny thing is , against Sweden was the best I 'd felt in the whole tournament . ’ |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 6 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 7 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 8 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 9 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 10 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 11 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 12 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 13 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 14 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 15 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 16 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 17 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 18 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 19 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 20 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 21 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 22 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 23 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 24 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 25 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 26 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 27 | The alternative had been revealed to me ; with magnificent hardihood , I had ventured into the Other Side ; was I to suffer the fate of the two Dutch explorers ? |
| 28 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 29 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 30 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |