Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [subord] i have " in BNC.

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1 I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me .
2 " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . "
3 And he added : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’
4 At a separate news conference , Sugar was in equally confident mood , telling reporters : ‘ We do n't want him at the club and if I have anything to do with it , he 's not coming back at all . ’
5 It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club .
6 ‘ Everything here will be available to Mr Riddle 's lawyer and if I have to take anything away I shall give you a receipt . ’
7 You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than
8 I love rugby and if I had the opportunity I would pull on my boots and play tomorrow .
9 ‘ I am Betty 's pusher but because I have had a hip replacement I am limited in the amount I can walk , ’ said Mr Richardson .
10 I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then
11 It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us .
12 I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've
13 He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’
14 This usually produces great merriment and after I have three adults in a line with me , most of the conversations have ended and people are helping out .
15 It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham .
16 I had no intention to going into the art business and although I had done ‘ extra art ’ at school , I sully intended going on the stage .
17 I , I , I think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place Peter , because at the end of the day you 're chasing business , you , you 're looking for business and if I 've got an account , I 'll be honest with you , if I 've got an account tomorrow or , that rings in and it 's in for sort of Friday , yes , and that should be there , and I 'm out of the area Friday , I 'll go across and get that business , I 'd go out of my area and get that business ,
18 ‘ It will be a bit of a wrench , but the England team manager 's job is the top one in the business and if I had n't accepted it , I might have regretted it in later life . ’
19 It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself .
20 And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system .
21 I wish you 'd told me before , Edward , I mean , it 's entirely your own affair of course but if I 'd known forewarned would have been forearmed and we could have avoided this sort of thing . ’
22 There 's no question Quinn — and Cottee , Aldridge and the rest — are masters of the art and if I had one in my club , he 'd be the first name on the sheet .
23 The scenery was beautiful and even though there was snow on the ground it was like a hot summers day and if I had the chance to go back I would .
24 A number of mourners were quite abusive after the service and if I had not found the funeral so moving I would of asked one or two to step into the vestry .
25 By this I mean that the bait is only fished on the outward journey , the retrieve being of such a speed to bounce the bait across the surface and although I 've seen pike strike at these surface poppers , it 's a very rare occasion .
26 You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind .
27 Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald .
28 See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a
29 To go out at midnight in heavy rain or frost , as I sometimes did , when I would be working next morning and when I had hardly seen my wife all day , almost broke me .
30 I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’
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