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

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1 ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’
2 I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up .
3 I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion .
4 Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him .
5 Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night .
6 Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything .
7 ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’
8 I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them .
9 I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her .
10 I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties .
11 Where I 've wet it what 's it done to it ?
12 where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet
13 Well where I 've put me bricks they 're
14 We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table .
15 Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’
16 or I 've lost it on t' way running for bus .
17 We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something .
18 And er this is what I do , Well I used to do jobs round here for a while or I 've chucked it up now aye .
19 So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not .
20 I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week !
21 ‘ I do n't know anything except I 've done something unforgivable and you have to help me undo it .
22 That is er clean , except I 've wiped my hands on it .
23 Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars .
24 Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal .
25 Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight .
26 Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you .
27 I hated the hoop of diamonds which , although I had washed it , looked somehow dirty .
28 I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him .
29 He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone .
30 And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house .
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