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

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1 ’ I 've got a young family to look after and I have a full-time job .
2 and said after and I have .
3 Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm .
4 Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare .
5 Because of that I have a stereo mix on stage and a monitor for my amps , which is basically two 4x12 cabs .
6 It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever .
7 And she used to love taking a new ten shilling note out of and I 've saved this for holiday .
8 These birds come from America , so they are difficult to get hold of and I had the added problem that I was looking at the end of the breeding season .
9 Any thing I 'm not sure n sure of cos I 've r I 've really ran the school out of paper threes .
10 Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side .
11 It 's just terribly bad luck , it 's the worst luck I 've heard of since I 've been here , that 's eight years .
12 It 's just terribly bad luck , the Consul had said , it 's the worst luck I 've heard of since I 've been here …
13 only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think .
14 Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights .
15 Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that
16 Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take .
17 What about if I had K X plus three ?
18 ‘ It was as if I had a vast chip on my shoulder .
19 I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that .
20 It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart .
21 He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning .
22 I felt as if I had just given birth .
23 Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little .
24 a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague .
25 The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart .
26 I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention .
27 I 'm late , ’ I said , as if I had an appointment to keep .
28 When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away .
29 Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one .
30 It was as if I had been expecting visitors .
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