Example sentences of "[adv] that i [verb] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 2 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |
| 3 | I shall never forget the kindness of the many people who took it in turns to give me a lift , so that I did n't have to drive there and back . |
| 4 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 5 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 6 | I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection , just that I do n't have one . |
| 7 | It 's just that I do n't have the same taste as she does and she always wants me to have what she wants . |
| 8 | Not that I do n't have the most intense professional fellow-feeling for Summerchild . |
| 9 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 10 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 11 | The police pointed out that I did n't have a tail light working as I was parking it . |
| 12 | I did n't belong to a union , I did n't know anything about my rights then , and I know now that I did n't have any in that particular case … |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later . |
| 14 | Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me . |
| 15 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |