Example sentences of "i have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | I have even used paper shims for more accuracy . |
| 3 | I have even dreamed as Marie Romanov ; a nightmare in which I and all my family were taken down into a cellar and shot . |
| 4 | Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios . |
| 5 | I know him , I have even protected him on a number of occasions against scurrilous attacks by fellow priests . ’ |
| 6 | I have even known poachers remove the thorns themselves in the afternoon of their own planned expedition . |
| 7 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 8 | I have even developed another faculty not normally considered as one of the five senses . |
| 9 | I have even tried knitting the pattern without taking the yarn out of the yarn feeder to do the transfer rows indicated at the side of the punchcard . |
| 10 | I have even heard of some who have helicopters , some say even tanks . ’ |
| 11 | I have even considered it myself . |
| 12 | Rho has a spectrum of type F8 , and is slightly ‘ off-white ’ ; I have even recorded it as perceptibly orange , which is unusual for an F-star . |
| 13 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
| 14 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
| 15 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 16 | In an expensive Chelsea restaurant I have even seen — and eaten — a mixture called rillettes écossaises or " pât✓e of Arbroath smokies with whisky " . |
| 17 | Ancient Egypt , rather than Ancient Rome , was used to fine effect by Agatha Christie in Death Comes as the End and I have even reviewed , most favourably , some years ago a novel in which the great Aristotle , no less , was the sleuth . |
| 18 | And you will be pleased to hear that I have even managed to bring a bucket of ice to chill the wine . ’ |
| 19 | I have even seen him at the hairdresser 's , supporting her head as her hair is washed . |
| 20 | I suppose I have enough to fill two cottages , so space is at a premium before I have even unpacked half of what I brought . |
| 21 | I have even dramatised it in my mind for television and big-screen advertising à la Barclaycard ( i.e. funny ) , starring — well , you name them . |
| 22 | I have even heard of hiding places in beds but never seen one . ’ |
| 23 | I have even some serious intention of visiting the colony for two years for the purpose of making observations etc . |
| 24 | Tree swallows had just arrived in Hobart on their annual migrations , and were ‘ particularly numerous in the streets ’ ; wood swallows dived among the paddocks and pasturelands on nearby estates ; fire-tailed finches and flame-breasted robins were busy nest-building in gardens and orchards — ‘ I have even taken its nest ’ , remarked Gould about the latter , ‘ from a shelving bank in the streets of Hobart' — while dusky robins perched on garden railings . |
| 25 | Thorfinn said , ‘ I think I can look my successor in the face , provided I have even the illusion of free will . |
| 26 | ‘ I have even heard of people buying up airmiles through newspaper adverts to get there ! ’ |
| 27 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 28 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 29 | I have also learned , he wrote , to heed the voices when necessary . |
| 30 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |