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 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 .
3 I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly .
6 So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal .
7 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
8 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 .
9 ‘ 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 ?
10 ‘ 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 .
11 Better than I 've ever done ! ’
12 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 . ’
13 ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done .
14 Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’
15 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 .
16 Susan had known Hilda better than I had .
17 I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it .
18 When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’
19 For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike .
20 Better than I have in a long time . ’
21 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 .
22 ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’
23 Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years .
24 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 . ’
25 So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’
26 There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford .
27 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 .
28 So much so that I had to threaten to call the police . ’
29 Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me .
30 Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else .
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