Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 2 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 3 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 9 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 10 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 11 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I 'd tried one-one-five , or five-five-one … or five-one-one , or five-five-five … |
| 13 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 14 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 15 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 16 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 17 | Obviously cos I 've got the green ones oh |
| 18 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 19 | He is a media manipulator of genius , so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape , waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped . |
| 20 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 21 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 22 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 23 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 24 | So if I 've got the number here , equals a hundred to the power half . |
| 25 | So if I 've got a customer that 's sending erm quite a lot of parcels but have got a |
| 26 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 27 | So it 's probably just as well that I did n't leap off in your boat because er even in this climate I , I could have ended up pretty cold and miserable especially if I 'd fallen in . |
| 28 | Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself ! |
| 29 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 30 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |