Example sentences of "[subord] i have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 2 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 3 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 4 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 5 | " Where I 've got a job . |
| 6 | They say no , 'cause I 've got a police house . |
| 7 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 8 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 9 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's a real feisty northern woman and that was nice for me because although I 've done a lot of different work , because of my television work , I tend to be thought of as the rather middle-class , bouncy , girl next door type . |
| 11 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
| 12 | Although I have has a lot of support , I feel heartbroken about Henri 's future . |
| 13 | Hollies are not difficult to grow , although I have found a tendency for them to die back badly at maturity in places with cool , wet summers . |
| 14 | More than I have wanted a woman for a very long time … ’ |
| 15 | He took a tentative bite and then started howling again , so I had to open a tin of Whiskas — turkey flavour , full price . |
| 16 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 17 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 18 | When I got back I found the office was n't open until the next day , so I had to get a driver to break in for me . |
| 19 | EQ'ing helps , but I found that over-correction would affect the lead channel , which shares the same tone circuitry , so I had to accept a compromise for my crunch sound . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it was a threatened abortion , so I 've sent a sample for pregnancy test , and given her a shot of analgesic . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So I 've had a run of bad luck . |
| 22 | I thought the the restaurant was quite expensive so I 've bought a sandwich in the shop instead . |
| 23 | All right , so I 've got a bottle of Scotch which costs about 50 quid and if the studio does n't pay for it I 'll never work for them again , and a big pile of this flimsy hotel notepaper . |
| 24 | At the moment , I 'm working on our Autumn brochure so I 've got a lot of work to do with our theatre manager , Brian Goddard . |
| 25 | There 's already a school for boys in Morton , and now I want to open one for girls , so I 've rented a building for it , with a small cottage for the schoolteacher . |
| 26 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 27 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 28 | You must be hungry , so I have ordered a lunch of bread and cheese for you all . ’ |
| 29 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 30 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |