Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be honest with you , I did n't want to come but I 've got no choice . ’ |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | sorry can , can we get to the question again , want to see if I 've got it right , correct me if I 'm wrong , over the eighty schemes and the five years that you had put forward budgets for all , you had n't included a contingency fund element ? |
| 5 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 6 | As I climbed , I tried to remember if I had shut the Wheel Room door . |
| 7 | ‘ Pears wants to play and I have to bear that in mind . ’ |
| 8 | So he has control over what he wants to hear and I have my own mixer on stage . |
| 9 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 10 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 11 | I want to feel that I have entrusted Hasan to a gentleman . |
| 12 | It was like people were looking at me and guessing my age and looking to see if I had a ring on my finger . |
| 13 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 14 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 15 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 16 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 17 | A little ward-maid appeared at the bedside with an enormous vacuum flask of Georgian tea , refusing to leave until I had downed every drop . |
| 18 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 19 | I am writing to advise that I have taken over the role of Computer Liaison Officer for the Trading Standards Department . |
| 20 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 21 | I have replied to all , and would like to report that I have negotiated a suitable figure with Christina Littler and Bob Haddon of Birmingham who will take possession before the end of May . |
| 22 | look , look , I , I , I 've got to go because I 've got another meeting to go to this evening , erm , what , what I , er what we need to do is to get this laid out clearly as to what our projections ar are |
| 23 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 25 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 26 | You might like to know that I have recently been in touch with a Mme Francine Roussel ( University of Nancy II , 23 Blvd Albert 1e , Nancy 54000 ) who is just completing a survey review of concordancers . |
| 27 | Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't have offered to help if I had n't had the experience necessary . |
| 29 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 30 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |