Example sentences of "i have [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case , what choice do I have but to agree ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | As a rationalist , I had but to snap my rational fingers , it might be argued , and the devil would fade away in a puff of smoke . |
| 4 | For once I drank no wine with my meal ; it would have helped considerably , if I had but known , but it seemed wrong that one should need artificial stimulus . |
| 5 | And his complex emotional relationship with Elizabeth , which I had but glimpsed , made the situation that much more precarious . |
| 6 | The main feeling I had when going back was of déjà vu , of stepping back two years in my life . |
| 7 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 8 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 9 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 10 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 11 | Erm and er oh yes , er no wait a minute I had and take two and started work as a booking clerk , I 've said that before at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 12 | From then on I decided to leave all that I had and collect nothing but Avant-garde . |
| 13 | And I had a couple of months making it and god , it was such a wonderful time I had and writing the lyrics and saying things about love and feelings that have meant something to me over the years . |
| 14 | I told him I had and left without saying any more . |
| 15 | I had and have the distinct impression that my mother found me a nuisance . |
| 16 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 17 | And you as says you ca n't mess them about you see , cos after I 've and smother so we have |
| 18 | Take , for example , the perceptual experience that I have while looking at this bunch of carnations arranged in a vase on the table in the middle of the room . |
| 19 | ‘ You are welcome to share what food I have and stay here . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a tendency to trivialise the issue by making it about me , about the rights and wrongs of what I have or have n't done , and about my personality . |