Example sentences of "[subord] i have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 2 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 3 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 4 | " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat . |
| 5 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 6 | However , I have now decided that most of the new music out there is n't worth listening to , so I 've got back to reading about music in preference to listening to it . |
| 7 | ‘ Lately I 've been getting a hankering to play country music again , so I 've got together with a friend and put together a fun band called Modern Farmer . |
| 8 | I am chairman of the Africa committee of the British Refugee Council , so I have worked closely with refugees for a long time . |
| 9 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 10 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 11 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 12 | Now if I 'd said how about if you had erm sixty add sixty do you think you could do that ? |
| 13 | She 'd 'ave killed me if I 'd gone home without 'em . |
| 14 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 15 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 16 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 17 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 18 | It always looks as if I 've gone along with a sort of scalpel at the bottom of the letters as well , a sort of shaved off |
| 19 | ‘ I already feel as if I 've lived here for months . |
| 20 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 21 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 22 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 23 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 25 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 26 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 27 | I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him . |
| 28 | Cos I 've contracted out of SERPS . |
| 29 | Well anyway , whatever I I tried to get him to erm , cos I 've written again to the newspaper , I 've tried to get him to confess that , that the unions are the biggest because erm , even then I said to tell him well supposing that we could get , I said , erm you know the money to support you , I said just supposingly I said would be private vet , and he said what you dare say they would have to have there . |
| 30 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |