Example sentences of "[is] that i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 6 | Yeah , well all I can say , is that I 've seen the building and I would I would think th that it 's no problem . |
| 7 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 8 | All I know is that I 've felt a mite sadder every time an indie distributor like Making Waves or Red Rhino have hit the dust . |
| 9 | ‘ Another thing is that I 've started trying to play real tunes , real melodies — straight from the heart , really trying to commit myself . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 12 | And my second reason is that I 've come to doubt the futurologists , the people in the think tanks . |
| 13 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 14 | If I could just say one other thing , that is that I 've had a an initial of , of the blocks done and pending the outcome of Woolwich which I expect to get tomorrow erm , if they are backing out then I will be getting a full structural , engineers structural survey within a couple of days , this is the actually meeting plan . |
| 15 | Q My problem is that I 've got very bad split ends but if I keep having my hair cut it wo n't grow . |
| 16 | The only thing I care about is that I 've got to share a cell with you . |
| 17 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 18 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 19 | ‘ My trouble is that I 've got to be hurt to really start fighting . |
| 20 | Well I mean I 've looked round here for a pair of blinking shoes , the only trouble here er had over here is that I 've got to go somewhere where they 're wide enough and that 's |
| 21 | So that by the time so that when you 're out catching elephants you 've already got the the the planning story is straight already as part of your net is that I 've got a planning |
| 22 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 24 | One of the few things , erm , that I 'm really proud of about myself , is that I 've read all of them . |
| 25 | The only exception in my case , is that I 've used a firm that does more than thirty-five thousand pounds worth of work a year . |
| 26 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 27 | My theory is that I have to unmartyr him . |
| 28 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 29 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 30 | My reply is that I have sought to identify some of the congeries of qualities of the legal institution of marriage , not to identify its ‘ essence ’ . |