Example sentences of "i have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 3 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 4 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 5 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 6 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 7 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 8 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 9 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 10 | I had never used the word malai in her hearing ; now I 'd applied it to her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 12 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 13 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 14 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 15 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 16 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 17 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 19 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 20 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 21 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 22 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 23 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 24 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 25 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 26 | I thought I 'd seen it in here let's have a look . |
| 27 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 28 | It was the first time I 'd seen anyone in labour and I made a silent vow that when I was married I was n't going to have any babies if this was how you had to suffer . |
| 29 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 30 | Since lunch-time I 'd done nothing except be in the company of women , hanging around in pubs or crawling through traffic . |