Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 2 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 3 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 4 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 5 | Now that the little spot of reality I 'd made in this mean city has been so lightly abandoned by those I 'd thought it would be safe with — but you wo n't catch me compromising with the lackeys . |
| 6 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 7 | Ah , I 'd forgotten about this one : Kevin Brand , there could be a connection there . |
| 8 | I have to say I 'm afraid I ca n't erm I have thought about this yes . |
| 9 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |
| 10 | I remembered the black tents I had seen on this same spot on my first visit . |
| 11 | I had worried about this over-aged schoolgirl crush . |
| 12 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 13 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 14 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 15 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 16 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 17 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 18 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 19 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 20 | Partly I bad believed for reasons which were extraneous , and I had used the emotional commitment I had found in this to cover for a lack of genuine commitment . |
| 21 | The official was a friend of mine , and had done me some good turns over the previous few months ; most of which time I had spent in this same hotel . |
| 22 | I 've gone into this one in some detail because if you understand what is happening , then you can understand why certain things are important and must be done correctly . |
| 23 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 24 | I 've written about this before . |
| 25 | Moderator I 've asked for this new clause to come in immediately after seven because of what in accepting seven we 've just done . |
| 26 | I 've gobbed on this one already now . |
| 27 | But , even while her spirits were taking a nosedive that , supposing he was offering her a lift to Prague , there would n't be any point in accepting if it was unlikely she 'd be able to book in anywhere , he , to her absolute astonishment , was going on , ‘ There 's a spare room in a suite I 've reserved for this month — you can have that if you wish . ’ |
| 28 | There have been women I 've liked and respected , but there has been no one I 've loved until this moment . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They scrummed well and it was as hard a match as I 've played in this season . |
| 30 | But the grey-haired proprietress is adamant : ‘ I 've lived over this shop for years , and I 'm not moving now . ’ |