Example sentences of "i have [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 2 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 3 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 4 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 5 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 6 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 7 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 8 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 9 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 10 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 11 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 12 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 13 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |
| 14 | I have pointed Out in an earlier essay , for example , that the distribution of certain fossils corresponds remarkably well with the old Austro-Hungarian Empire , though it is doubtful whether the Hapsburgs had much control over evolution . |
| 15 | I wonder if that washing 's done , let's have a look , I have to go out in the shed and get the erm no its not er , its not finished yet |
| 16 | I have to go back in the morning and I must have you with me . ’ |
| 17 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |