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

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1 I 'm just back from the railway station , where I have deposited in Left Luggage a small brown parcel containing one Smith & Wesson and two dozen rounds , and I have detoured on the way back to buy three more shirts , some underpants and some socks .
2 [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out .
3 ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’
4 I have never come across the problem of a horse licking the soil … although I have heard of eating droppings ( COPRAPHAGIA ) and other inedible things such as tree bark , afterbirth , dirt and bedding .
5 He said , ‘ I have never heard of Auric Industries before , although I have heard of Auric Enterprises .
6 Sex : ‘ I 've never paid for it in my life , although I have gambled for it .
7 Such inspections are theoretically repeated every two or three years , although I have come across some childminders who have not received a follow up visit for several years .
8 Although I have to admit to buying Sat , Sun , Mon cause it does have a good sports section — especially the cricket .
9 Although I have mentioned to Kate of my association with Fiona , the two have never met .
10 After all , no two people are exactly the same , at least none that I have heard of or met !
11 But cyclists have no alternative but the A2 , a road so awful that I have heard of tourists giving up at Canterbury , fearing that the rest of Britain is just as bad ( which on trunk routes , it is ! ) .
12 In the debate on the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , he gave what was in effect one of the best arguments against a single economic authority that I have heard in Parliament .
13 That is the most amazing question that I have heard in the House .
14 The real issue was put in possibly the best speech that I have heard in this place by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) last night .
15 It is right to say that I have heard from Mrs Paul 's classroom assistant during the last academic year , she appears virtually to have acted as an enabler , but she was by no means dedicated to Paul as a one to one enabler and of course the extent of the attention of which she had to give to Paul detracted from her ability to give attention to other pupils .
16 Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ?
17 I 've still got a very distorted body image that I have to live with .
18 And I think we need to heighten , sharpen our awareness of erm what I understand by communion and er er , also to er , to remember that the injunction of Paul as he was you know that I have received of the Lord at which I deliver unto you .
19 I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months .
20 Yet I offer to you as much as I possess , and so much as old age has left me , with the utmost satisfaction , as being at least a testimony to the instruction and delight that I have received from your marvellous invention .
21 It would be inequitable to those who take a contrary view to that of the hon. Gentleman if I were to see him exceptionally , in addition to all the other representations that I have received from him , now that the consultation period is over and I am reaching a conclusion on the matter .
22 The advice that I have received from those who understand the issue better than I is that it will drive many small convenience stores out of business .
23 I have been interested in the number of representations that I have received from country areas and I see no reason why the Bill can not apply to villages , too .
24 I am indebted to his Department for all the technical help that I have received from it , and I sincerely hope that the Bill is a better measure as a result .
25 I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them .
26 The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years
27 That is not to say that I shall select my facts to fit my theory , I shall rather select those general impressions that I have gathered in the course of my geological wanderings .
28 Sometimes I think it 's pathetic that I have to deal with this simplification of who I am , and then other times I think , that 's it , that 's what I am , what I read , that 's who I am . ’
29 Several of the people that I have dived with have been grossly overweight , enjoyed being so , and are completely at home in the water swimming around like walruses .
30 ‘ 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 ?
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