Example sentences of "[conj] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 2 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |
| 3 | Keifer Sutherland , son of Donald , managed to steer clear of drugs , ‘ although I have been known to let off steam occasionally , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 5 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 6 | Although I have been there myself . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 8 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 9 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |
| 10 | The figure that I have is about 800 submissions , but most of them were tear-out strips from newspapers . |
| 11 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 12 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 13 | The only enjoyable memory that I have is that of the instructor , a tall man with dark hair and a quiet nature vault a large gate in one bound and coming sprinting towards me to see what was the matter . |
| 14 | All that I have is yours ! |
| 15 | And Jesus says , all that I have is yours . |
| 16 | The concerns that I have are that when the road does go in that it does protect and it does in fact more of a protection by being there than it is in actual fact in existence at the moment . |
| 17 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 18 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 19 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 20 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 21 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 22 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 23 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 24 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 25 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 26 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 27 | ‘ I had the option of pulling him out because I was concerned about the ground , but the run has shown that I have been far too soft on him . |
| 28 | ‘ I seldom come out of my pulpit ’ , said Baxter , ‘ but my conscience smiteth me that I have been no more serious and fervent … |
| 29 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 30 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |