Example sentences of "[conj] i have [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 2 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
| 3 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 4 | I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique . |
| 5 | Near it is a fallen tree where I 've sat to watch the pair come and go . ’ |
| 6 | What we 've got to do is , or I 've got to do is to get our sister companies to visit the buggers . |
| 7 | You have to have confidence in your own ability and being black is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned 'cause I 've had to sample bits and pieces of how life can be nasty and it 's done me good . |
| 8 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 9 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 10 | Then , quite out of the blue , there had come the offer of a job at Marlborough ; for although I had resolved to abandon teaching , I had found , like so many others , that of all the means of earning one 's bread , freelance authorship was among the most precarious . |
| 11 | Our collecting had begun successfully although I had failed to realise how cold it could be at night in the forest . |
| 12 | The Ariston CD3 is , in the end , just another player , and although I have tried to highlight its special attributes , there will be listeners and systems for and with which the Ariston is less at home than it was here on test . |
| 13 | But in the end I 'm happy with the new deal although I have had to compromise . |
| 14 | Although I have chosen to begin reading Marx 's theory of ideology by reference to his concept of consciousness , the material form of consciousness and also of ideology is clearly language : |
| 15 | It 's up to Social Services , and Social Services may choose , although I have got to say it 's unlikely , to register a children 's or an elderly person 's home despite the fact that we 've given advice that they should n't . |
| 16 | The only difference between then and now is that I 've decided to apply to extend my contract with him , and work in Santa Barbara more . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not something that I 've sought to examine . |
| 18 | And I know that 's what she 's planning to do — get me thrown out of the company that I 've helped to build , taken a reduced salary . |
| 19 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 20 | This is the third time tonight that I 've come to look for you . |
| 21 | The sad part is that I 've come to hate my body so much , I blame it for everything , and now I ca n't let anyone get close to me , to reassure me . ’ |
| 22 | And my second reason is that I 've come to doubt the futurologists , the people in the think tanks . |
| 23 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 24 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 25 | I ca n't do anything with him , yet this other kid 's absolutely brilliant , and I think it 's a shame that I 've had to leave , like let the temps . |
| 26 | ‘ Rosemary 's so uptight about anyone , in particular family , knowing about us that I 've had to keep her name a closely guarded secret . |
| 27 | And I said , you must realize I 've a small company , and that 's , in one respect that I 've had to send those conditions because you 're failing to meet the agreed thirty days payment ! |
| 28 | I suppose it 's just something that I 've learned to live with . |
| 29 | It 's only in recent years that I 've learned to use the weather forecast before contemplating a hill-walk . |
| 30 | Erm I 'm half and half I I I go along with Angela in the main that the the kids in , generally speaking the kids that I 've talked to do n't want to put their own input a lot of them do n't want to because , as Angela says , they can not find the appropriate words and some of the others just write some some stuff that I would look at |