Example sentences of "[subord] i have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet I have never fallen off a roof , although I have experienced the odd flutter of the heart when a ladder slips . |
| 2 | Although I have passed the allotted span I am , in my own opinion , still that same foreigner . |
| 3 | Although I have mentioned the analogous process with optical film , as far as I can discover magnetic tape was first spliced to make a BBC radio programme . |
| 4 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 5 | ‘ So I 've passed the first hurdle , ’ she breathed . |
| 6 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 7 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 8 | The fact is , there was little choice but to approach the matter as I did — as I am sure you will agree once I have explained the full context of those days . |
| 9 | Once I have achieved the correct balance I have completed the compositional structure . |
| 10 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 11 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 12 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 13 | For a moment I wondered if I 'd brought the bad luck down on us by pretending the planetaries were n't working , at the Vadinamian Valve . |
| 14 | ‘ How do I know if I 've met the right person ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’ |
| 17 | I try it myself , to see if I 've got the right idea . |
| 18 | er , I will try and push you to see if I 've got the right money , you know . |
| 19 | I thought , oh I wonder if I 've got the right number here yeah but you 're both well then ? |
| 20 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 21 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 22 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 23 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 24 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 25 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 26 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 27 | With coincidence being stretched a little too far , I decided to recheck my work to see if I had missed the obvious . |
| 28 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 29 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 30 | I was thinking how funny it would be if I had switched the smoked salmon for ham . |