Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having studied my chemistry in the steam age ’ , he writes , ‘ presumably I have missed out on the new ‘ water ’ . |
| 2 | Nowadays wanting to work on Saturdays and I said right I 've had enough Friday . |
| 3 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 4 | At first I was too busy writing research reports and later on I had become completely engrossed in purely human studies . |
| 5 | Erm hang on I 've got quite a lot , I 'm meant to be going to choir tonight but I really ca n't be bothered , I mean |
| 6 | But that was good — not six o'clock yet — Dr Graham might still be at his office And suddenly I had to act quickly . |
| 7 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 8 | But morally I 've grown up downwards . |
| 9 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 10 | If only I 'd looked earlier on ! |
| 11 | I think perhaps I have have n't I ? |
| 12 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 13 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 14 | But obviously I 'd got on to something a bit more skilled and I still had this know all attitude . |
| 15 | I personally I 've had yet to deal with one where the complaint . |
| 16 | so I had to lie down properly and crawl over the top of it . |
| 17 | Something I 'd never to do , so I had to settle down and get School Certificate , which I got with my matric exemption , and people from did . |
| 18 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 19 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 20 | So I had to go out shoplifting every day then . |
| 21 | So I had to go out and let Ashley and Kelly out |
| 22 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 23 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 24 | And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it . |
| 25 | And so I had to go alone . |
| 26 | So I had to go along with it , to avoid making him suspicious ’ . |
| 27 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 28 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 29 | So I had to drive out past him , pull over to the other side of the road as much as possible to let him come through and the other cars come through , then I could come . |
| 30 | Then in the end we came to a river so wide I could n't see the other bank ; I felt frightened and thought this must be the end of the race , and I wanted to stop , but Father plunged straight in without looking at me so I had to plunge in too . |