Example sentences of "[conj] i have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh hang on a minute , wait til I 've finished please |
| 2 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 3 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 4 | I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place . |
| 5 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 6 | ‘ I SAT where I had sat before , and the same bliss entered me . |
| 7 | Holyfield keeps popping into the Olympic Boxing Hall where I 've spent so many evenings in Barcelona . |
| 8 | It is a good tournament , a good field and a course where I have won before . ’ |
| 9 | TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience . |
| 10 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 11 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 12 | I 'd better go now , sorry about that , but I have to go , I 'll find the gates and I 'll leave , that OK ? 'Cause I have to go now , no question about it , OK ? |
| 13 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 14 | Although I had had only two stitches at the delivery I was tightly bandaged and not allowed to get out of bed for three days . |
| 15 | Which although I 've heard before does say something about them … also , I met a few of them on the train up from London … |
| 16 | She paused and added thoughtfully , ‘ It 's strange , but although I 've stayed down here a lot I 've never met him , but perhaps that 's because his wife was an invalid and he devoted all his time to her . |
| 17 | Although I 've worked in nearly all the departments you do n't really get to know the people that well . |
| 18 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 19 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 20 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 21 | The fry that have been born usually hide in these plants , although I have lost more than I have saved only rearing four Swords and two Mollies . |
| 22 | Although I have read only a summary of the one-day debate and not the full text of all the speeches , I believe that my impression is correct that the British hesitation over the two key areas was hardly referred to at all . |
| 23 | It all came back into my mind because of the ball , the spring ball , and the partner whose name I could not remember , although I have remembered now . |
| 24 | For among the effects is one that is new , and that nothing that I 've said so far could have suggested this very exuberance , as well as the things it plays on , can make us smile or laugh . |
| 25 | But what I 'd like to do before we progress much farther , is just to , just to think , maybe about some of the things that I 've said there , some of the things that we 've already spoken about . |
| 26 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I do hope that I 've done well , ’ Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables . |
| 28 | I only want him to say that I 've done well in finding somewhere for us to be ! " |
| 29 | It 's , it 's the things that I 've written down quickly . |
| 30 | I keep a record of the book number that you are given , that 's another record that I 've written down here , and then I keep , within that record , I keep details of your marks all the way across , what I gave you for your erm attainment and effort grades progress checks , your exam marks and so on . |