Example sentences of "i [vb base] [vb pp] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time I 've said that word since Gerry died , but I 've said it now . |
| 2 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 3 | I 've seen that girl ride straight at an obstacle would make many a man blanch . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen that boat somewhere , but I ca n't place it . |
| 5 | Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts . |
| 6 | I mean both in the experience of , that I 've had and research that I 've looked at , there seems to be in terms of positive results , kind of strategy that are being used are strategies that , that both improve learning performance and improve emotional conditions for the child . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I 've known that story since I was a little girl . |
| 8 | I 've found that polystyrene ceiling tiles make an ideal filler for large gaps in floorboards . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've found that morning is not a good time for conversation , ’ she murmured . |
| 10 | ‘ As it happens , I think prevention is better than cure , but in some cases I 've found that safety procedures leave a lot to be desired . ’ |
| 11 | I 've learnt that life is deeper than I 'd thought and certainly not meant to be skimmed along . |
| 12 | I have argued that antiracism has been unable to deal with the new forms in which racism has developed . |
| 13 | I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) . |
| 14 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 15 | What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read . |
| 16 | Tragically , from experience , I have discovered that Government Departments have not been speedy in dealing with the rights of victims of terrorism in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | There are now several in existence , some of which I have monitored and note , with their permission , certain findings . |
| 18 | I have noticed that fact , even if the Opposition have not . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 20 | Oh , I have seen that boy 's face full of fear as he stares through a window at me passing in a swirl of snow . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ I have learned that hatred and bitterness are destroyers , and can not build the future . |
| 22 | In reading the bundle of documents relating to this appeal , both before , during and since the hearing before me , I have wondered whether attention was not focused almost as much on the father 's wish to obtain an order for costs against the local authority as upon the important question of making for these children the best decision that was available . |
| 23 | I hope I have shown that caring for your physical health involves mental , emotional and spiritual processes too . |
| 24 | In other words man 's life was not really affected except for the possible lack of sex which I have mentioned whereas woman was reduced to eating and sleeping and also probably knitting little woolly jumpers and hats and gloves and scarfs and trousers . |
| 25 | I have found that shying is best combated by taking as little notice as possible . |
| 26 | So far I have suggested that law is facilitative of commercial activity . |
| 27 | I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle ; I would go one step further and say that it is a literal example of this process . |
| 28 | I have suggested that Truth for Gandhi is that which determines the spirit in which he lives , or the religious and ethical criteria which govern the way in which he thinks and acts . |