Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 2 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 3 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 4 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 5 | ‘ You are reminded that I have the backing of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't like being reminded that I have not one drop of blood to link me with my family . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 8 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 9 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 10 | Last week , an announcement on er further steps on acid rain — six thousand million pounds ; I mean there 's big , big money in there already committed and I 've no doubt that when the need is shown , there 'll be greater money still spent — which will either be taxpayer 's money or customer 's money . |
| 11 | The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres . |
| 12 | A septic tank has already been installed and I have a quotation — amounting to some thousands of pounds , I 'm afraid — to drill for water . |
| 13 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 14 | I 've come and I 've took my boots off and poured the bloody rain out . |
| 15 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 16 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 17 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 18 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
| 19 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 20 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 21 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 22 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 23 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 24 | eighty nine thousand , I need another go round and another thousand pound and I 've won because I 've got me two thingybobs |
| 25 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 26 | The time 's come when I 've got to make a change . |
| 27 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 28 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 29 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 30 | Explained that I had no power to do this without your authority but would be glad to know Tolbukhin 's views and that if they coincided with mine I would ask you officially . |