Example sentences of "[vb past] i have the " in BNC.

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1 A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket .
2 I found I had the best of both worlds .
3 ‘ I never believed I had the front .
4 I never felt I had the choice .
5 ‘ I felt I had the momentum coming back from 40–0 , ’ the Australian , French and US Open champion added .
6 I thought I had the right build for it , and my footwork at that age was pretty neat .
7 I think I took drugs to escape my problems , because I thought I had the world on my shoulders for a number of reasons .
8 Nor did I have the urge to linger on the Neva embankment with Charsky .
9 ‘ You mean , did I have the cats before the sculpture was done ?
10 ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head .
11 Nor did I have the inclination , she added silently .
12 He always said I had the luck of Lucifer . ’
13 He saw me alright cos like John said I had the headlights on .
14 No she said , I 'll get you ! and he said I have the mobile phone number .
15 What I have said about Nottingham I would also have said about East Sussex had I had the same information .
16 Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was .
17 The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness .
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