Example sentences of "i have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded .
2 There is no escape ; I have to say a few words about the properties of materials .
3 To show you what I mean , I have selected a few names at random from my local telephone directory and listed them , together with the image which sprang to my mind ( although yours might be completely different ) .
4 In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’
5 I have to take a few digs — as well as the compliments .
6 All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes .
7 I have enclosed a few things I would like you to look at when you have a moment .
8 I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent .
  Next page