Example sentences of "and [verb] i have " in BNC.
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1 | The lease for Southwell City Football Club , forty five pounds , our waste paper income , about five hundred pounds in the calendar year , er V A T refund about three thousand pounds , and grants I 've put down five thousand pound income for the year . |
2 | went out of the house to go to , shut the door and realized I 'd left my cars in the house . |
3 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
4 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
5 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
6 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
7 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
8 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
9 | How many people go back home and say I had an affair ? |
10 | And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone . |
11 | Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful . |
12 | If anyone takes the mickey I turn round and say I 've got a daughter . " |
13 | It 's so easy to just write the slip and say I 've sold my car to mister so and so . |
14 | and she 'll go and get the milk out and say I 've just got myself a glass of milk mum , oh right , okay not even aware that she 's gone out to the fridge you know , fair enough we say ah , you do n't do you ? |
15 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
16 | Get on the phone and phone up Currys and say I 've got this model freezer |
17 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
18 | ‘ You bring those girls here — girls who have shared your bed — and say I have mistaken you . ’ |
19 | But if I write back and say I have n't actually had any wages since the seventeenth of January I might get it backdated from then . |
20 | I said to Angela , eh , I said , if you go for that job you ca n't stop in middle of ceremony and say I have to go out granddad . |
21 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
22 | I 'll use a cheque and hope I have enough in the account back home . ’ |
23 | Keith Pringle ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) would seem to suggest all the experience I have gained and the help and support I have given to young children has no value . |
24 | ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed earnestly , ‘ I know how wicked , how unworthy , how evil and wanting I have been and am and will be for ever . |
25 | No , it 's got to be right , right , er big and I 'm going to stuff it with a plank of wood and put I 've got about two bushes and what the problem is , is you 've got get |
26 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
27 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
28 | The final text has ‘ When all 's said and done I 've got the habits of a decent man ’ . |
29 | They did n't want me at this party , but because I AM , fang and claw I have grapple-hooked their smooth cliffs , and have the right to stalk these wooded cliffs , lap at their abundant streams . |
30 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |