Example sentences of "i have was " in BNC.

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1 The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds …
2 Conserving what little money I had was therefore my number-one priority .
3 The bass I had was awful as well .
4 I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done .
5 But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that .
6 I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started .
7 All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so :
8 All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment .
9 It seemed that all I had was myself , and those few very close people called my loved ones .
10 One idea I had was to get the teddy bears to do the ‘ hokey cokey ’ [ p.67 ] with the children putting in their teddies ' left arms and shaking them about .
11 ‘ I came out of the shelter one mornin' and all I had was gone .
12 The first sexual casual pick-up I had was also in South Wales ; this must have been about 1965–6 when I was nineteen or twenty .
13 ‘ And the first reaction I had was , I was just jealous . ’
14 Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young .
15 The last break I had was five months ago .
16 For no good reason , that settled it , by which I mean that what conscience I had was put to sleep by sheer , raging curiosity .
17 The most professional approach which I had was in fact via an intermediary who was acting on behalf of an existing customer of the company who employed me and whose objective was to sound out general interest without disturbing the importance of on-going business relationships .
18 Brian : The only problem I had was people thinking I had problems .
19 The card I had was a 2,400bps ( bits per second ) data modem , and a 9,600bps Class 2 fax modem .
20 I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister .
21 The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely .
22 The poetry book I had was Stevenson 's A Child 's Garden of Verses , and I read it obsessively , once going in to Smith 's in the High Road to ask if he 'd written any other poems .
23 I had no cooker , no fire , no bed , no furniture , all I had was blankets and sheets and clothes .
24 The only time I had was five hours on the Sunday beforehand , and that was supposed to be a rest day . ’
25 No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed .
26 ‘ The idea I had was crazy , ’ he said slowly .
27 The exhibition could be read on many levels , but the immediate impression I had was of its strong Americanism .
28 So that was er and then I came back here I was demobbed and came back to , I was er the highest rank I had was corporal you know , in the acting corporal actually .
29 And the , the , the laugh I had was er , the last time they were advertising for spoolers they , you had to have I think it was O levels or something ,
30 And the second fire I had was just before the last war .
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