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

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1 I do n't think this means that there is no saying what he is getting at in these works ; opinions can and will be formed , and for the extent of the present discussion I have been attempting to express one .
2 I have been in action some days .
3 I have been very lucky ; the right opportunities have come along and yet every time you take them you are looking forward immediately to the next challenge .
4 I have been lucky , I suppose .
5 That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time .
6 All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry .
7 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
8 I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote .
9 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
10 In recent days , he wrote , perhaps because Spring is upon us , I have been putting in the hours but the intensity has gone .
11 And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity .
12 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
13 Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote .
14 I have been walking a great deal , he wrote .
15 The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it .
16 I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary .
17 As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts .
18 I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner .
19 He mentions dog 's tooth violets and despite an intensive search , I have been unable to find any .
20 I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it .
21 Despite reference to seed catalogues and gardening books , I have been unable to find any information on its propagation , either from seed or from cuttings .
22 For example , when sitting relaxed in a T21b , I have been nearly blacked out by a student during a tight loop .
23 In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary .
24 I have been savaged by love , ’ she would declaim , when she 'd had a few .
25 ‘ Darling , ’ he said , folding one long leg over the other , sweeping his glasses to the desk , ‘ I have been in love most of my life .
26 What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems .
27 As she saw movement near the doors Eleanor said , ‘ I have been told that you in America enjoy such freedom that socialism is not needed .
28 I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability .
29 In addition , I have a particular axe to grind , as I have been a professional woodcarver for 25 years in both ornamental and sculptural disciplines so woodcarving tools hold a special interest .
30 Well , I have been and gone and done it this time .
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