Example sentences of "[conj] i have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 2 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 3 | ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book . |
| 4 | Where I have a little concern and that 's only 'cos I do n't know the of all of it , is that you are picking up , yes very minor non-conformances but in practice fairly large numbers in a fairly short time scale what I would be concerned about is when you get your B S I audit that these other areas that you have n't looked at have got equally this lack of attention to detail , that you end up with not only major break down in your system , but sufficient minor breakdowns in your system , to cause them to say that they wo n't give you registration . |
| 5 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 6 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 7 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 8 | His feathers grew back although I had a feeling he was never quite the same — he looked , kind of , embarrassed ? |
| 9 | I did n't box , although I had a lot of fights at school . |
| 10 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 11 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 12 | As for the left-handed tremolo , well , it 's a matter of taste , although I 've a feeling that this feature might prevent the SRV overcoming its strong artist connection and becoming a popular guitar in its own right , like the Clapton Strat has . |
| 13 | Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite . |
| 14 | Although I have a brand new petrol pump and electronic ignition . |
| 15 | I ca n't feel enthusiastic about the government training course I 'm on and although I have a nice boyfriend , I 'm trying to finish the relationship . |
| 16 | It is not for me to say what the states should do although I have a personal view . |
| 17 | If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting . |
| 18 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
| 19 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 20 | On hearing that I had a place among successful candidates I was excited with pleasure . |
| 21 | Suffice it , that I had a few moments of fanciful pleasure . |
| 22 | ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’ |
| 23 | Three hours earlier a lilting voice had told me that I had a nice big cock . |
| 24 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 25 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 26 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 28 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 29 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 30 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |