Example sentences of "[conj] i have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’
2 I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain !
3 ‘ Just point me where I have to go .
4 Where I have to take issue with the LTA , however , is over its decision to increase prize money for 1992 by 20 per cent from $500,000 to $600,000 , which will be exactly double the minimum requirement from tournaments in the same category on the ATP Tour , for 1993 .
5 It now belongs to Lord Bolton and has a grand little tearoom where I have slaked the dust absorbed on summer cycling trips on many an occasion .
6 I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks .
7 just where I have fallen ,
8 Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’
9 Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene .
10 The solution using differentiation is shown in Figure 2B , where I have shown that the same transfer price is spot on for both divisions .
11 Suffice it to say that if I could afford it , there would be pieces of bogwood where I have shown rocks at the back !
12 When , towards the end , he said , ‘ I am convinced that where I have failed no one could have succeeded , ’ this appeared not a boast , but an understatement .
13 Mafe , 25 , who won world gold with the Great Britain 4x400m relay team , said : ‘ I 've reached the point in my life where I have to start earning money .
14 It is a good tournament , a good field and a course where I have won before . ’
15 TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience .
16 ‘ But I shall die where I have fought , and deem my lot is best ;
17 Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years .
18 [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out .
19 Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ .
20 It appears that there are many points at which er we can identify with one another or I have found that I can identify with the church and its social responsibility in this country because of our experience in my country .
21 ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’
22 I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week !
23 Once again I would stress that neither my client nor I have made any approach to the company apart from this letter .
24 I 'd better go now , sorry about that , but I have to go , I 'll find the gates and I 'll leave , that OK ? 'Cause I have to go now , no question about it , OK ?
25 I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring .
26 ‘ I am treated as a big failure to my parents and am seen as unworthy , although I have done nothing wrong . ’
27 As argued earlier , I do not consider it useful to debate the significance of these phenomena in terms of an essential theoretical designation of the new strata as either ‘ new working class ’ or ‘ new petty bourgeoisie ’ ( although I have argued that in terms of property relations alone they are working class ) .
28 I have never come across the problem of a horse licking the soil … although I have heard of eating droppings ( COPRAPHAGIA ) and other inedible things such as tree bark , afterbirth , dirt and bedding .
29 He said , ‘ I have never heard of Auric Industries before , although I have heard of Auric Enterprises .
30 I had no trouble the night I got 94 in one setting — although I have heard tales from other warreners who have suggested this has happened to them .
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