Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 2 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 3 | If I start thinking of It as a person , entitled to a dignified end , the next thing will be of course that I have no right to end It at all . |
| 4 | I do n't remember her of course but I 've heard my father and them speaking about it . |
| 5 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 6 | you 're probably right , but the point remains of course and I have to have |
| 7 | It will depend on how many choose to enter the type of contract that I have described . |
| 8 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 9 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 10 | Stories which Eliot knew then such as ‘ They ’ and ‘ The End of the Passage ’ , ‘ one of the most striking tales of fear that I have ever read ’ , would haunt his poetry . |
| 11 | A splendid night of football although I had hoped Villa would go through . |
| 12 | He has not got the freedom of action that I have . |
| 13 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 14 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 15 | I think to be a good teaching aid something has to say ‘ Well I think this because ’ and , as it were , retrace the chain of reasoning that I 've just the sort of chain that I 've given you . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd make us a cup of tea if I had some clean water , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 17 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 18 | Indeed Krashen 's work as a whole reveals very little in the way of appraisal as I have defined the concept : ideas are hurried through the processes of interpretation and evaluation and made operational as rapidly as possible . |
| 19 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 20 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 21 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Henry Fonda was apparently heard to say of his son , ‘ That little bastard … he and some other punks have produced a movie out of nothing and have made more money from that piece of crap than I have made in a whole lifetime in Hollywood . ’ |
| 23 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 24 | Just six weeks till the end of term because I 've got my books for six weeks and they 've used , date stamped in them is the last day of term ca n't be bad can it ? |
| 25 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 26 | This is still a month or two short of publication but I have managed to get hold of a set of proofs which I am sending you under separate cover . |
| 27 | I have n't got that , and of course I could n't run your version of setver unless I had setver cos it would say incorrect DOS version . |
| 28 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 29 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 30 | Yes and also take long long time if you do the sort of volume of work that I have to do . |