Example sentences of "i have [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 2 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 3 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 4 | I 've escaped from many places with this … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've eaten at many , of course — ’ |
| 6 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 7 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 8 | I 've spoken to many knitters about the N1 cam and the comment I hear so often is ‘ Oh , I was told was told always to put it in the centre of the machine , or ( worse ! ) at the edge of my knitting ’ . |
| 9 | I 've dealt with many men like him over the years and I 'm under no illusions as to his character . |
| 10 | Er this is alright we 've done it informally in the past , you know I 've talked to many clients some of which I handle some of which I do n't and always the question is er are we giving erm a service that we can improve on , if you look dealing with er are there any points you 'd like to raise with me , all these sort of questions but it 's all very unstructured er and sometimes it 's er er results in us having an action plan emerging , sometimes not . |
| 11 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 12 | So er can I suggest that we actually ask the the Recreation Ground Committee to look at these problems over the er I do n't think there are any significant problems actually after the , after the Easter weekend fortunately , but just to have er in reply to the city football club , because they are concerned , and have been I have to say for many years , so it 's not unusual . |
| 13 | Launching the scheme , Chief Executive Ralph Hodge commented : ‘ As I have said on many occasions , the Quality Improvement Process must be central to the way we manage C&P and meet the many challenges which lie ahead . |
| 14 | As I have stated on many occasions , Charter has been a most supportive shareholder , most recently under the Chairmanship of Sir Michael Edwardes . |
| 15 | The old man drank his coffee and muttered , ‘ I have lived through many cruel things , child , and now you are cruel to your abuelito . ’ |
| 16 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 17 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 18 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 19 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 20 | This is an ability I have developed over many years , starting , of course , at a time when none of the modern locating devices were available . |
| 21 | Do they have the orientation programmes which I have seen in many of the local authority homes that I have visited in my constituency ? |
| 22 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 23 | I wrote work instead of word ; the analyst would deduce from this , that I am lazy , and admittedly he would be right — I have dreamt of many things both by day and by night . |
| 24 | I have learned from many discussions with primary teachers in schools in Sweden , Yugoslavia and Bulgaria ( where centrally imposed guidelines are used ) that guidelines tend to confine . |
| 25 | ‘ I have worked for many centuries to lift it , Nuadu , but it is a long hard task , for the punishment was to be eternal . ’ |
| 26 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 27 | Indeed , I have sat in many classes dominated by the art and personality of a teacher , where the whole class was carried forward to new understandings . |
| 28 | They must have recalled the prophetic remarks in 1829 of the Nez Perce elder Speckled Snake : ‘ I have listened to many talks from the great father . |
| 29 | ‘ I have listened to many different opinions , some well-meaning and some not , and we 've heard public statements made by Senna . |
| 30 | As a past member of several panels of the CNAA ( and as a Council Member ) I have listened to many discussions about initial teacher training courses planned by polytechnics and colleges . |