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

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1 The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction .
2 He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world .
3 ‘ Not in the least now that I 've had a chance to study you him .
4 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 . ’
5 ‘ I have two American Standard Strats that I 've had for about four years , one with Lace Sensors , the other with DiMarzios .
6 The friends that I 've had for over 20 years are ones I can rely on and who do n't ‘ take ’ all the time .
7 I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for .
8 And again I must be frank in telling you , because if I do n't tell you this , one of the maids of the house will likely inform you very shortly , that I 've had two helpers already this year .
9 All the replies got eleven or so replies that I 've had for that questionnaire .
10 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 .
11 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 !
12 I have to carry my tetanus card so that if I was er injured and unconscious and not being able to say that I 've had the horse serum , the doctor thinking , Oh look look he 's got lots of soil in that cut , er give him a quick injection of the horse serum , that could actually be fatal .
13 Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only .
14 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 .
15 But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility .
16 I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have .
17 Not that I 've had much chance to do anything for him .
18 ‘ That new fuel blend of yours has just ensured that I 've had the most embarrassing drive of my life !
19 Yes , I mean , the the the rea , the people that I 've had most contact with , erm , in sociology , are those who are concerned with , what is known as the labour market .
20 Erm , and the reports that I 've had back from the governors was that Concept Catering was so , so absolutely certain that they were the only people who could do it , that when they were faced with competition , they had n't got the faintest idea how to respond to it .
21 ‘ Rosemary 's so uptight about anyone , in particular family , knowing about us that I 've had to keep her name a closely guarded secret .
22 ‘ Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared .
23 well this case I 'm afraid does n't lend itself to short entirely impossible , er Mr maybe have to say erm will lead to the questions and then for example spent er a long time on questions this afternoon that I 've had for you Mr
24 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 .
25 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 !
26 With the er , erm , was it years before that I 've had something like forty or thirty five
27 Yeah , but I would n't wear it now I 've put it away now but er I 've got erm I 've got a yellow one that I 've had ooh
28 That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years
29 and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can
30 And if they find out that I 've had cookery , I 'm dead !
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