Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 2 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 3 | I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time . |
| 4 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 5 | This case raises serious and complex moral issues and I have asked for a detailed study of the House of Lords judgement in the light of Catholic moral teaching . |
| 6 | ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area . |
| 7 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 8 | I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me . |
| 9 | In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached . |
| 10 | Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view . |
| 11 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 12 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 13 | I am proud of what I have done as a practising solicitor and I expect all other solicitors feel the same . |
| 14 | The original engine I have kept as a spare and would like to convert it to run on unleaded petrol , could you please inform me where to get drawings or information on conversion . |
| 15 | Like in confession when I tell Father McCormack that I have sinned in a personal manner — I do n't tell him I 'm having it off , do I ? |
| 16 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 17 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 18 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 19 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 20 | I have appointed to a new post — the director general of resettlement — Major-General Burden who has returned from the British Army on the Rhine . |
| 21 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 22 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 23 | I think I have changed from a front-foot player in the 2nds to a back-foot player in the first team — through necessity really . ’ |
| 24 | It may be objected that my argument defines individualism too narrowly ; for rather than contrasting the properties of individuals as such with those of social wholes , I have focussed on a particular range of traits , and in doing so may be said to have neglected properties to which the individualist can legitimately appeal . |
| 25 | I have left behind a perfect segment of the universe we inhabit so blindly . |
| 26 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 27 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 28 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion . |
| 29 | Sir : Your leading article ( 4 October ) is without doubt the most vitriolic piece of anti-trade union bigotry I have read in a serious newspaper for some considerable time . |
| 30 | The fourth element of the constitution is one that I have described as a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy . |