Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS a student , all I 'd done in a hospital was two weeks as a medical student , wandering around . |
| 2 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 3 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 4 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 6 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 7 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 8 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 9 | That 's the third 'an I 've lost in a week and I 'm flummoxed I want ye out here this mornin' to have another look round . " |
| 10 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 11 | Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own . |
| 12 | For the past seven years I 've skied in a selection of one-piece uninsulated shell suits and I doubt if I will ever turn back . |
| 13 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 14 | Today , I 've put in a runner bean — it must be all of twenty inches long — but I do n't grow them specially . |
| 15 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 16 | Er and basically that 's I 'm beginning to feel that I 've thrown in a bit of a red herring here . |
| 17 | Erm er also um I 've stuck in a note about the difficulty in interpreting the consequences of abuse erm because of the way in which um you may find , as did , looking at people who 've been abused as children er versus people who have n't . |
| 18 | Oh , it was the merriest morning I 've spent in a cow 's age , and all the work of little you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , unlike its predecessor it has no score system ( I always like to know how far I 've got in a game ) , but I presume this is due to memory restrictions . |
| 21 | She says : ‘ It 's the most dreadful exercise video I have seen in a while . |
| 22 | But there is a lighter side to these people , due largely to the inadvertently humorous comments , or questions they ask , some of which I have collected in a sort of ‘ common-senseless ’ reference book . |
| 23 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |