Example sentences of "so i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 2 | The only wildlife problem has been created by the jackdaws trying to nest in the front-room chimney , so I have pushed up a chimney brush to discourage them . |
| 3 | I am concerned to ensure CPRW puts in a considered response so I have asked Professor Haines , who chaired our Agriculture Working Party , to convene a special meeting of expert and experienced people to advise us . |
| 4 | and I did n't change them all day cos I have n't got any money to buy any more so I have to wear them |
| 5 | If I ca n't , I 'll be really upset so I have to do everything step by step ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So I have written . |
| 7 | Four crossword puzzle addicts with assorted academic degrees ( including a professor of modern languages ! ) are decidedly miffed at their inability to find a plausible solution to question 2 , so I have written in what came first to my mind . |
| 8 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 9 | The secretary , who also organizes the church flower rota , has just resigned in a huff , because she says the Sunday school has taken over some shelves in the vestry flower-vase cupboard without asking , so I have to take the minutes . ’ |
| 10 | He is n't here , so I have to take you to the hotel myself . |
| 11 | Matt has asked particularly for a device which can be interfaced with a computer so I have searched through my data library in order to find a short-list of suitable devices . |
| 12 | This is my second Way of Life seminar , so I have missed discussion which may have taken place at earlier seminars over the definition of ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 13 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 14 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ So I have heard . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So I have heard , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Information about day to day life in Islay at that time is scarce so I have selected from those columns a variety of interesting occurrences . |
| 18 | ‘ At one time I had over trees in the garden but that took up so much time , so I have whittled that down to around or 60 . ’ |
| 19 | But you should certainly avoid obvious personal intrusions , such as the two following : The confession " Sorry , I had no time to complete this essay , so I have made some basic points that I would have brought out and discussed . " |
| 20 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 21 | ‘ So I have killed you , too , ’ the monster said to Frankenstein 's body . |
| 22 | The man wo n't step foot outside his castle without myself as escort , so I have to kick my heels until his business with Queen Matilda is done . |
| 23 | I 'm a collector , so I have to collect them all . |
| 24 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 25 | You must be hungry , so I have ordered a lunch of bread and cheese for you all . ’ |
| 26 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 27 | ‘ I recommended the player through a contact , so I have taken some flak from my management team . |
| 28 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 29 | And one other thing : when I take my three-year-old daughter out , the child seat gets pushed sideways by the back-seat cushion , so I have to straighten it by putting a book under it . ’ |
| 30 | There is no word , at least in current usage , that does justice to this advanced technique , so I have had to coin a term of my own . |