Example sentences of "have [verb] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The label on the key Mrs Tamm has given me is crumpled and blank . |
| 2 | The 22-year-old Bath back-row forward 's astonishing winding road to glory has taken more twists than a roller-coaster , the most recent providing ample proof ‘ that somebody up there has decided I am going to make it ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You either sink or swim , ’ she said , ‘ and I 'd decided I was going to swim . ’ |
| 4 | And erm the Oh he 'd made I 'm getting er losing my track . |
| 5 | Whereas if I 'd said I was coming with Kevin it would n't have been . |
| 6 | I would if I 'd said I was going to sleep , stay with Hannah |
| 7 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 8 | I 'd thought I was going to rest on my laurels . |
| 9 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 10 | In fact if I 'd known I was coming here I could have brought you some in , let you seen what we used to do . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I 'd gone I was asked to do a wide range of things but not because I was Chrissie Rogers but because of me Ethy Browne that has been the most satisfying aspect . |
| 12 | and they come in and have a coffee , that 's it , good boy , and erm , er , so , I , I said well I 'm gon na have to go I 'm going over to me daughter 's she 's just had a baby so |
| 13 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 14 | I also felt bad about reading it because I 'm sure Stuart would have thought I was spying . |
| 15 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 16 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 17 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 18 | Now I 'm gon na have to say I 'm gon na be grateful to Mr it 's a really bad day . |
| 19 | When I received your ‘ phone call telling me I had won I was dumbfounded . |
| 20 | so I 've decided I 'm going to do erm something called Sunshine Chicken , which is just chicken e , chicken casserole , a bit different , she does n't drink alcohol so I ca n't do anything in wine , erm so I 'm doing that , I 'm doing four portions of chicken of that cos the daughter eats chicken , erm |
| 21 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 22 | I 've got I 'm going to the cash and carry anyway . |
| 23 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 24 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 25 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 26 | The doctor was amazed — he had thought I was going to die . |
| 27 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |
| 28 | The knocking that had woken me was repeated , and I heard Masha 's voice . |
| 29 | After he had gone I was standing in front of the fire , my back to it . |
| 30 | It was n't until a physiotherapist found a vertical tear in the hamstring that they had to admit I was injured and that there was nothing wrong with my motivation . |