Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 2 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 3 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 4 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 5 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 6 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 7 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 8 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 9 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 10 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 11 | ‘ Now , Tess , I have told you often enough that I have no wish to set up in Belgravia , Harley Street , or Wimpole Street , ’ said Dr Neil quietly , refusing the sandwiches which a servile McAllister was handing him . |
| 12 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 13 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 15 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |
| 16 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 17 | Susan had known Hilda better than I had . |
| 18 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 19 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 20 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 21 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 22 | So I would ask nicely that I have petty cash of say thirty pounds , which out of I would buy , or pay the cleaners ' wages , and any minor expenses that come my way . |
| 23 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 24 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 25 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 26 | I feel more tied down than I 've ever been before . |
| 27 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 28 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 29 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 30 | At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit . |