Example sentences of "[conj] i have " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’
2 I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain !
3 ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small .
4 ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’
5 Leading me where I have always wanted to go yet never known how .
6 It is a good tournament , a good field and a course where I have won before . ’
7 [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out .
8 TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience .
9 There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year …
10 I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind .
11 just where I have fallen ,
12 In some cases , where I have personal experience , I shall go into the depth of the technical details .
13 The solution using differentiation is shown in Figure 2B , where I have shown that the same transfer price is spot on for both divisions .
14 Mafe , 25 , who won world gold with the Great Britain 4x400m relay team , said : ‘ I 've reached the point in my life where I have to start earning money .
15 In point of fact , for my Uaru tank , I would probably simply potter out to the garden , where I have piles of our local rock , which seems to be a metamorphosed sandstone , and has proved inert during years of use .
16 Suffice it to say that if I could afford it , there would be pieces of bogwood where I have shown rocks at the back !
17 Where I have to take issue with the LTA , however , is over its decision to increase prize money for 1992 by 20 per cent from $500,000 to $600,000 , which will be exactly double the minimum requirement from tournaments in the same category on the ATP Tour , for 1993 .
18 They are very high quality soft pastels , with a wonderfully creamy texture which varies not at all from colour to colour , unlike other pastel ranges I have bought , where I have sometimes found that the darkest colours have been brittle and irritatingly scratchy to use .
19 He says cheerfully : ‘ I ca n't remember any expedition where I have n't thought that at some time .
20 Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years .
21 When , towards the end , he said , ‘ I am convinced that where I have failed no one could have succeeded , ’ this appeared not a boast , but an understatement .
22 It now belongs to Lord Bolton and has a grand little tearoom where I have slaked the dust absorbed on summer cycling trips on many an occasion .
23 Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene .
24 Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’
25 ‘ Just point me where I have to go .
26 ‘ But I shall die where I have fought , and deem my lot is best ;
27 I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks .
28 ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book .
29 Where I have to be .
30 I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . "
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