Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the third 'an I 've lost in a week and I 'm flummoxed I want ye out here this mornin' to have another look round . " |
| 2 | I 've played in a certain town that makes linoleum where the audience did not laugh once . |
| 3 | Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own . |
| 4 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 5 | For the past seven years I 've skied in a selection of one-piece uninsulated shell suits and I doubt if I will ever turn back . |
| 6 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 7 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 8 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 9 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 10 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
| 11 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 14 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 15 | Well look at me , I 've worked in an office before but , do I know everything ? |
| 16 | I 've worked in an office before ! |
| 17 | ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee . |
| 18 | Today , I 've put in a runner bean — it must be all of twenty inches long — but I do n't grow them specially . |
| 19 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 20 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
| 21 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 22 | Er and basically that 's I 'm beginning to feel that I 've thrown in a bit of a red herring here . |
| 23 | Erm er also um I 've stuck in a note about the difficulty in interpreting the consequences of abuse erm because of the way in which um you may find , as did , looking at people who 've been abused as children er versus people who have n't . |
| 24 | Oh , it was the merriest morning I 've spent in a cow 's age , and all the work of little you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job . |
| 26 | Perhaps I 've , perhaps I 've , perhaps I 've mixed in a very sheltered society . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , unlike its predecessor it has no score system ( I always like to know how far I 've got in a game ) , but I presume this is due to memory restrictions . |
| 28 | is the stuff that I 've got in a little bag , got little bag full |
| 29 | In my case , and I am sure I am not alone in this , I can picture in my mind 's eye every summit I have reached in a long life without confusion of identity . |
| 30 | ‘ I have gone in a completely different direction from the one I envisaged , ’ she says . |