Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 2 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 3 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 4 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 5 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 6 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 7 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 8 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I 've said quite often that ga it could be |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 12 | ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’ |
| 13 | I 've lived here longer than you . |
| 14 | I 've come home once or Mice with blood coming from my back-collar stud-band and my shoulder bones . |
| 15 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 16 | ‘ I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … . |
| 17 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 18 | I have eaten there once and came away describing it as something not very special . |
| 19 | Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes . |
| 20 | It should be clear from what I have said so far that the police national computer is exactly that — for use by the police in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 22 | Of course , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , there may be nothing to leave , nothing to explain , nothing to understand , even though I have prepared long enough and only started when the time was ripe , even though I began full of confidence and managed to persuade myself , for a while , that I was well under way . |
| 23 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 24 | There has been considerable rumour and conjecture about its future , although recently I have heard once again that it has been purchased but whether to remain as a public house I ‘ m not sure . |
| 25 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 26 | It did not make it clear that the impulse to take the peach is a continuing reaction in awareness of its anticipated taste , so that I have chosen rightly only if I continue spontaneously to welcome the awareness right up to the savouring of the juice on my tongue , in other words if I do relish it , enjoy it . |
| 27 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 28 | I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 29 | Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow . |