Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 2 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 3 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 4 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 5 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 6 | where I think we 've er lost track of about eight or nine people . |
| 7 | Where I think we have tried to do something interesting is in this idea of giving the student a , a whole year 's experience in the school to help them become professionalised , rather than the normal practice , the traditional practice of school practice , which meant going twelve , sixteen weeks into perhaps two bytes , into a school , and this does mean the student can get integrated with the school community and take part in the extramural life of the school , get involved in games and school plays and school outings in a way that 's not possible if they 're in and out on that short basis . |
| 8 | That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere |
| 9 | Or I know you 've recently received some information , that 's good . |
| 10 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 11 | Erm I 'm going to or I 've I 've started every time a recording comes in making a note of where it 's from and what type of recording it is , |
| 12 | The next thing is er on the agenda we 've got the or I thought we had . |
| 13 | In fact I mean you can buy or I mean you 've got the record of erm how far back , you could invite all the existing , living parish councillors , so far as we could , and , and that , that would be , I think that would be fascinating . |
| 14 | Or I believe they have got some quieter ones now . |
| 15 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 16 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 17 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ I said , although I knew she had boyfriends . |
| 19 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 20 | Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases . |
| 21 | And they wo n't give any guarantees , although I understand they have n't failed up to now . |
| 22 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 23 | If I may erm we , we , we , we did attend er er er a briefing and myself and James , unfortunately Margaret was unable to be present on that day , although I think she 's had a separate briefing or there is a separate briefing being proposed . |
| 24 | I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player . |
| 25 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 26 | The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension . |
| 27 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
| 28 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 29 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 30 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |