Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 2 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 3 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 4 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
| 5 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 6 | I can manage better if I have someone with me , but this is n't always possible . |
| 7 | ‘ Only if I have to , ’ came the reply . |
| 8 | He is a media manipulator of genius , so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape , waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped . |
| 9 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 10 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 11 | So if I have n't I 'm going . |
| 12 | Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll go alone if I have to , ’ Riven snapped with sudden irritation . |
| 14 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 15 | ‘ People call me Moma Parsheen , perhaps because I have no children except for … ’ she stroked the cat creature . |
| 16 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't just throw it in because I have n't succeeded yet . |
| 18 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 19 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 20 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 21 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 22 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 23 | Or perhaps — such a suggestion rises in me only because I have lain next to the contagious soul of Gustave himself — did he gather it elsewhere ? |
| 24 | ‘ Only because I have n't been able to prove it yet . |
| 25 | I 'm in the dark here obviously because I have n't I have n't had access to this particular case . |
| 26 | Mind you , there 's one dream I have regularly , I do n't need to write it down because I have it so often . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It would n't matter much because I have a reputation , one that I 'm really stretching to the full in doing a feature on sunny Spain . |
| 28 | Something perhaps since I have last seen you . |
| 29 | I was shocked too by Batty 's departure especially since I have been watching again and again the Leeds championship video ‘ 91/'92 in the last few days . |
| 30 | Assuming Mariánky to be a shortened version of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia nodded , and Lubor beamed a smile at her as , ‘ Only since I have worked for Mr Gajdusek , ’ he replied , though could n't resist tacking on , ‘ It seems that I was meant to come here … ’ he paused for effect , and added ‘ … to wait , for you ! ’ |