Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 If that is so , the end would be the same as I have reached by a more laborious , and perhaps more questionable route . ’
2 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 .
3 I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes .
4 Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ .
5 Dr John Little , president of the Cambridge club , said : ‘ I ca n't say unequivocally but I have gone through a history of the club and there is no mention of it there . ’
6 Like many others , I suspect , I have gone into a shop of whatever description linked to a current hobby , have asked a few pertinent questions , and have then exited clutching some new-bought kit .
7 I have gone in a completely different direction from the one I envisaged , ’ she says .
8 Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth .
9 ‘ It 's the first time I have taught at a university .
10 He said : ‘ I look at myself and what I have achieved on a time-scale of every two years .
11 Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe .
12 I have written about a T.V series which I find appalling .
13 I have selected from a wealth of alternatives :
14 I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time .
15 I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away .
16 I have checked with a breeder and my Angel is a female .
17 This case raises serious and complex moral issues and I have asked for a detailed study of the House of Lords judgement in the light of Catholic moral teaching .
18 ‘ In addition , I have asked for a timetable of progress .
19 ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area .
20 Mr selected the figure seventeen it is in no spirit of perversity that I have lit upon a figure not contended for by either of the parties , namely eighteen .
21 Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man .
22 I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me .
23 Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ?
24 I have lived in a very good conversion and viewed some very bad ones .
25 In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached .
26 I have flown with a number of people who , with the slightest lowering of the nose or the gentlest stall , look as though they are having an epileptic fit .
27 Sloman ( 1978 ) straightforwardly argues for a conscious module or sub-part view , of just the sort I have opposed to a program-level view .
28 On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people .
29 There may be others still under discussion — I have heard of a purchaser moving into his new house to find a circular on the doormat inviting him to support a protest against the erection of a 150ft BBC television mast within fifty yards of the house .
30 , writes : TWICE in recent weeks I have heard of a character which sounds like Notre Dames and they say he was played in a film by Orson Welles .
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