Example sentences of "[pron] i have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 2 | Rose Macaulay , so often mentioned by Ivy , was the only other person whom I have ever tried to meet — unsuccessfully , for dates did not fit . |
| 3 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 4 | Further to our telephone conversation last week , I am writing to inform you of the changes of circumstances concerning the above policy , which I had completely forgotten to do , and for which I apologize . |
| 5 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 6 | A certain crepuscularity of spirit had sauntered in , courtesy of a misunderstanding which I had n't bothered to trouble the prancing Squire and his Milady with ; not fair , in their state of mind , I thought . |
| 7 | Indeed I piled up on my home bookshelf many more volumes than appear here and which I have regretfully had to omit . |
| 8 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 9 | Slight and in his mid-twenties , he moved with energetic nervousness , his sharp eyes darting in all directions , as if on constant guard against a knife in the back — a worrying habit which I have since come to associate with compulsive back-stabbers . |
| 10 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 11 | Which I have inadvertently forgotten to bring with me . |
| 12 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 13 | ‘ Pantomime is something I 've always wanted to do . ’ |
| 14 | Something I 've always wanted to do . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's something I 've always wanted to do ’ said Glen who is better known as an up and coming tenor in the operetta and classical music fields . |
| 16 | Something I 've always wanted to do and rather daunting as everyone knows the original movies and shows and the people who sang and danced in them . |
| 17 | Yeah and tell me something I 've always wanted to know . |
| 18 | It was something I 've never wanted to do with any other man . |
| 19 | Certainly , you 've got to be pigeon-holed into a market and people want to know whether I 'm white or black , which is something I 've never had to think about before . |
| 20 | ‘ But the way I see it I 've just got to get on with it , I do n't have any choice . ’ |
| 21 | It was what I 'd always wanted to happen but thought never would . |
| 22 | What I 'd really meant to say was : Can I go home now ? |
| 23 | I mean i i i if you were gon na sit there saying I 'm okay , I 'm , I can reach a reasonably comfortable business level , this is great , this is what I 've always wanted to do |
| 24 | At the Greenwich Meridian : Every single spot on earth is the centre , that 's what I 've always tried to say in my music . |
| 25 | That 's what I 've always tried to convey in my writing . ’ |
| 26 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |