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

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1 I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing .
2 A personal example : my rugby loyalty lies with Hawick , but for career reasons I live in Edinburgh , and I rarely have the opportunity to attend home games , so club membership is n't really worth considering .
3 Accordingly , I duly had a site meeting with Mr. George on 4th June .
4 Further points were discussed , for example the need for public liability insurance , which I duly went and arranged ; the need for ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ signs at each end , which I duly had made ; the need to take care , when working , not to disturb the kicking stones ; and the need to avoid making heaps when distributing the spoil , so as not to impede the grass cutter .
5 I eventually had to place a book order after scouring the shelves of shops and libraries .
6 I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida .
7 I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida .
8 Should I rather have brought with me the cross from the altar ? ’
9 I I rather have a
10 Christopher 's had a really good time so have I so has Robert .
11 Anyway , I merely had to dangle my aromatically forged reference from the Hamlet Academy before Mr Tim and there I was , unleashed upon the cosmopolitan virginibus puerisque couchant before their desks .
12 Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish .
13 so I 'm saying ah that 's that and that , that , so I basically have we were looking at erm , what 's it ?
14 I all had hoped to be able to bring before you a final draft of th the service it has not yet finally been passed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales therefore , discussions on what form and how it will be printed have not yet taken place .
15 I apparently had the advantage , but I did n't know why .
16 I better had , put these back on again
17 I better have the dishwasher going .
18 Ooh I better have a grandma as well please ?
19 I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work .
20 Erm right I better have one then really Yes Christine tends to eat several bowls a night sometimes does n't she ?
21 Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday !
22 So I naturally had to bear in mind the possibility that the jewel had not been stolen at all by any outside party , but ‘ caused to disappear ’ , let us say , by the Strattons themselves .
23 Now I personally have every sympathy with the man who says sceptically : ‘ Dead men do n't rise ! ’
24 I personally have found your candour very refreshing .
25 I personally have not had any problems with over-reaction using this method .
26 I personally have always liked the one-hundred-per-cent aspect of life ; I have always enjoyed life at the extremes .
27 In producing Supersense , the animal that I personally have become closest to is a European green-winged teal , which follows me everywhere .
28 Well there 's been some scepticism about the symbolism of , of weddings there 's also some scepticism about the reality of making that vow forever , er , which I personally have sympathy with cos I do n't see how you can say you 're going to do anything forever , but I suppose if you 've made a vow you 've got to stick with it .
29 I personally have much to be grateful for to those linguists who have gone on ahead and erected signposts , and I hope the examples I have used today illustrate my conviction that , notwithstanding its theoretical manoeuverings and terminological idiosyncrasies , an awareness of the questions and findings of linguistic research can help turn our language study into what it should be , a voyage of discovery .
30 Although ScotRail faced a barrage of bad publicity over the cycle ban in 1991 , and although some of the present restrictions remain irksome , on the whole I personally have had only good experiences when taking a cycle by rail within Scotland .
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