Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I had been sensible , Alexandra , I should have known I had no chance . |
| 2 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 3 | I 'll have to use I 've got Surf and I 've got bleach and that 'll do them . |
| 4 | I 'll have to check I 've got all the engine bits , whether I left any at dad 's so I can at least stick , bolt |
| 5 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 6 | If only he had started to write in a larger script , I might have felt I had succeeded with him , made him a poet . |
| 7 | He might have thought I 'd had one previous . |
| 8 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 9 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 10 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 11 | You may have thought I had thrown them away , or merely , forgotten about them , and I was entitled to do either , since you explicitly said I was to do exactly whit I liked with them , that you washed your hands of them completely . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 13 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 14 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 15 | Anyone would have thought I 'd lowered the resale value of the van or something . |
| 16 | I would have thought I 've washed and ironed every single one of your T-shirts there ! |
| 17 | Readers of this column will have concluded I have the same hang-up about finding the perfect house . |