Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll have to forgive me but I 've never read any of your books . |
| 2 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 3 | Nobody was as excited to see me as I 'd expected . |
| 4 | I did not want the man to see me until I had looked closely at him . |
| 5 | I can trust Hugo not to treat me as I have Ken treat Wendy in Lover at the Gate and , if he did , I would never indulge him as Wendy did Ken . |
| 6 | Fenella was half way down the stairs to meet me before I had my key out of the front door . |
| 7 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 8 | The Pope says : ‘ I want to inform you that I have decided to establish the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ , which is to be celebrated each year on 11th February , the liturgical memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 10 | To refute any groundless gossip on so important a subject I consider it necessary to inform you that I have no intention of doing so immediately . |
| 11 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 12 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 13 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 14 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 15 | She 's really beginning to annoy me but I have to get the job done : I just want to go back downstairs . |
| 16 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 17 | He said last night : ‘ I was scared for my daughter if they wanted to shoot anyone I wanted them to shoot me as I 've lived my life . |
| 18 | ‘ In the first place , he threatened to sell me before I had made my Rangers debut , and I had no reason to believe that he was kidding , either . |
| 19 | I hasten , therefore , to assure you that I have no such intention . |
| 20 | What goes on here ? ’ 'I did n't ask you here and I do n't want to see you and I have nothing to say to you , ’ I said , showing her the door but , alas , she seemed to have no intention of going through it , so I capitulated rather too easily and offered her a drink from the mini bar . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ It 's hard to get clothes to fit me and I have to go to the markets . |
| 22 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 23 | Was he too old , I wondered , to console himself after I had gone , with the knowledge that without our penetration of Enigma , he might still have won the U-boat war ? |
| 24 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 25 | I ca n't really mark then till I don I do n't want to mark them until I 've got them all in cos otherwise it 's not really fair so hopefully next week sometime . |
| 26 | box are in the toilet with a paper bag in there 's a , where I used to put them and I 've had a fair look but not sort of |
| 27 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 28 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 29 | I was just annoyed that he 'd chosen to do it while I 'd been away . |
| 30 | if , if I was really stuck and I had the , the tools , which , I would n't have you see , but if I did have the tools there , then yeah I would be able to do it cos I 've seen Martin doing it quite a few times , so |