Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 2 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 3 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 4 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 5 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 6 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 7 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 8 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 9 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 10 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 12 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |
| 13 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 14 | Susan had known Hilda better than I had . |
| 15 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 16 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 17 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 18 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 19 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 20 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 21 | I feel more tied down than I 've ever been before . |
| 22 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 23 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 24 | Perhaps if I 'd tried one-one-five , or five-five-one … or five-one-one , or five-five-five … |
| 25 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 26 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 27 | But perhaps if I had … ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 29 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 30 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |