Example sentences of "i 've [vb pp] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . " |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
6 | Well look at me , I 've worked in an office before but , do I know everything ? |
7 | I 've worked in an office before ! |
8 | Today , I 've put in a runner bean — it must be all of twenty inches long — but I do n't grow them specially . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Er and basically that 's I 'm beginning to feel that I 've thrown in a bit of a red herring here . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Oh , it was the merriest morning I 've spent in a cow 's age , and all the work of little you . ’ |
13 | ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job . |
14 | 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 . |