Example sentences of "i 've [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 've already done three Munros . ’
2 I want to reach a larger audience : I 've already made five records on indies , so maybe it 's time to move on , but some younger bands are gon na find themselves pushed into the limelight when they 're not ready .
3 I 've already made one mistake by booking in a crowd on Ling 's day off . ’
4 I 've already lost one house and a business and a car , two cars , and all the rest of it .
5 In fact as far as local education establishments are concerned , I 've already had two enquiries from direct enquiries from schools saying , Are you available ?
6 She twirled and turned in delight to show off the uniform to her mother Fran , adding : ‘ I 've already got two school bags one for my front and one for my back . ’
7 " I 've already got three pupils — my solicitor 's two granddaughters and another girl , daughter of a local landowner . "
8 She said quote , I really do n't accept the agency argument , I 've not met one family that has continued with agency care .
9 All these people there this weekend and I 've not seen one dog go out !
10 ‘ Well , they 've taken a blood sample , so I understand , on account of her not being able to give a breath specimen , but I 've not heard one way or the other .
11 I 've not had one tool that 's done what I tell it to do every time .
12 I 've just completed fifty-one years [ 1964 ] in the business .
13 How can I face people when I must look as if I 've just gone ten rounds with an all-in wrestler ? ’
14 I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them .
15 ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’
16 I 've just spent two days looking for thread .
17 There 's only the public phone in the post office , and I 've just walked two miles to get to that .
18 She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’
19 If your spoken answer to each question was the full ‘ I 've just marked 200 examination scripts ’ , which word or words would you stress in each case ?
20 So I 've just got ten records on this file and I say those words carefully because you 've got ta distinguish between record , file and field .
21 I 've just wasted ten minutes trying to listen to a man 's chest .
22 I 've even got five lever mortise locks .
23 and I 've also got one album erm with a few pictures in from when I was in Kenya which was in nineteen eighty four so , you know , if anyone wants to see what I looked like in there I had longer hair and I was wearing a white coat so they 're very welcome .
24 I 've actually received 126 machines — 102 of which are in Romania and the others in transit or waiting to go — and 118 large bin bags of wool as well as a large consignment from Bramwell's. thanks too to TNT , the national transport firm and Machine Knitting News and Machine Knitting Monthly for carrying my ‘ Romania advert .
25 Erm , I 've actually got two pound coins , and two twenty P .
26 Now , I 'm fortunate , I 've actually got seventeen years come July when the M , M M C reports back on British Gas , might split it up into seven , thirteen , fifteen different companies .
27 I 've actually got eight bags and erm , three boxes .
28 You can not ask Thorn and Young , I 've never seen two players play they do , they did th , they do the simple thing but they do it consistently well .
29 I 've never seen two sides defend so ineptly in all my life .
30 can I have a kiss , I 've never had one kiss today since I 've come home
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