Example sentences of "[Wh det] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | A split appears to be spoken of in the conversation from which I have just quoted : formed by the past , he is also deformed by it . |
| 2 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 3 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 4 | For example , one exercise which I have used in class is a play called Justice by John Galsworthy . |
| 5 | During this period I have given readings and seminar papers at various academic centres , including the universities of Oxford , Durham , Edinburgh , Essex , Manchester , Lancaster , Newcastle , Sussex , and East Anglia , and have written a number of unpublished papers which I have given in seminars at other similar establishments . |
| 6 | It is the world of ‘ ESSO ’ men ( Every Saturday and Sunday Off ) , and the ‘ real polis 's ’ scorn is reflected in some of the language of definition which I have outlined here . |
| 7 | This morning you were playing French cricket with my tennis racquet which I have just had restrung . ’ |
| 8 | I live alone with my garden , a patch of London land which I have reclaimed from waist-high thistles , elderberries , brambles and rose thorns to a restrained wilderness of my own design . |
| 9 | The first , about which I have mainly been talking so far , is the generality , or potential for generality , of things in the world . |
| 10 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Hirsch responded that ( apart from a phrase which I have elided ) , ‘ There is not a single one of these platitudes that I do n't subscribe to wholeheartedly … ‘ . |
| 12 | As we know , this agreeable stasis did not continue ; the synthesis started to come apart for reasons which I have tried to explain . |
| 13 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 14 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 15 | Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office . |
| 16 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 17 | Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced . |
| 18 | You describe it in your notes as hooliganism , and you give the example of our national pastime ( one with which I have never sympathised ! ) of watching football in large crowds . |
| 19 | Reaction against the weapons of ‘ The Thing ’ — I take that now , in concluding , as typical of some , though not all , of the classifications into which I have exhorted you to divide the breaches of law and order — reaction against its contradictions , its absurdities , its defiance of known , established , healthy reality , can only come from individual persons — and from individual persons who speak . |
| 20 | This enables him to preside over the process which I have described with the minimum of overt interference , the constriction of the budgetary limits performing much the same role as the balance of supply and demand in a market system . |
| 21 | In fact , the straits raised this an extra 5 per cent just before the ‘ Brothers in Arms ’ tour in recognition of the agency service which I have always provided . |
| 22 | Very occasionally a new phrase disconcertingly emerges which I have never heard before . |
| 23 | He was describing Odd-Knut 's Volvo which arrived the next morning , the like of which I have yet to see again . |
| 24 | So before leaping to his defence I waited until another column appeared , which I have tried to read in a less partisan manner . |
| 25 | My Fiat Panda has a similar ignition fault which I have diagnosed to be a disengaged starter motor . |
| 26 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 27 | It has been an experience which I have enjoyed . |
| 28 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 29 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 30 | Homemade pasta requires a very definite skill which I have n't got ( the texture of the dough is of paramount importance ) , so I cheat and use fresh pasta for special occasions . |