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

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1 But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised .
2 I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed .
3 How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ?
4 What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ?
5 Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent .
6 I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years .
7 Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds
8 ‘ You 'll stay right where you are until I 've made you a hot drink .
9 Since erm sexually reproducing organisms are and I 've tried to keep technical jargon in this course to a minimum , but one term we 'll have to learn is diploid , you ca n't do without it .
10 The only regrets I have are if I 've hurt anyone .
11 it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement
12 All the events recorded in this book took place more than forty years ago and memories are apt to play tricks on us , so it may be that I have made a few mistakes .
13 ‘ It may be that I have seen this place .
14 ‘ It could be that I have had some new shafts put in my clubs ’ , Woosnam pondered , ‘ and they are too stiff .
15 I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham .
16 As for what subject , I 'm not sure what it 's gon na be cos I 've got ta pass in the
17 I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know
18 ‘ It 's probably just me — you 'll be alright ( you 'd better not be after I 've put up such a struggle ) .
19 ‘ I hoped that the atmosphere backstage would n't be as I had imagined , which was the typical Manchester Iciness .
20 will be when I 've written
21 How could you be when I 've shown you nothing but contempt ? ’
22 the the reasoning being that I 've gone into the aspects of erm income support and that and basically i it 's about seventy pound a week to live on .
23 Being that I 'd had one before and I was alright about it , I feel fine .
24 ‘ I have no idea who these riders were and I have to accept the clerk of the course 's decision .
25 Yeah it were after I 'd had summat to eat .
26 I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs .
27 There 's one thing that erm I sometimes do to give it colour , is once I 've taken off the outside skin of the onion , the very outside
28 I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand .
29 Good morning , I must say , I I stand before you today somewhat nervous , because erm , this is , this is my first to you as Treasurer , but this will be a slightly different speech from one 's that I have given in previous years .
30 ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do .
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