Example sentences of "time i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have tried everywhere in the Legion , but every time I have hit a brick wall . ’ |
2 | ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said . |
3 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
4 | Indeed , this is the first time I have found a photographer reveal the position he was in when he took a particularly impressive shot of slime mould , for example . |
5 | I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep . |
6 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
7 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |