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

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1 But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston !
2 You 're a wonderful s you 're a wonderful speaker but wait til I 've finished .
3 oh hang on a minute , wait til I 've finished please
4 ‘ 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 . ’
5 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 !
6 ‘ 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 .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand .
9 I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up .
10 I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs .
11 I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen .
12 So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off .
13 I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe .
14 I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion .
15 That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving .
16 I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes .
17 Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him .
18 I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place .
19 The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before .
20 Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants .
21 There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening .
22 My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days .
23 At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night .
24 ‘ I SAT where I had sat before , and the same bliss entered me .
25 As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition .
26 There is an unutterable sadness around Medina del Campo , where I had to change trains for Salamanca .
27 I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started .
28 I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties .
29 We all went to the carol service in Bath Abbey , where I had difficulty restraining my tears .
30 It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy .
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