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I and haven't
Haven't we haven't I seen you.
I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.
I haven't got that kind of money ''.
I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!
`` I haven't the faintest idea.
You must understand, I haven't been in this state too long.
`` I haven't had any luck since I was a baby ''.
`` I haven't seen her yet, but I hear she's a lulu ''!!
`` I've got cancer, haven't I ''??
`` You haven't got cancer '', I said as strongly as I could.
Guess I've changed, haven't I??
`` I'm sorry I haven't got a glass '', I said.
I haven't seen her on the beach ''.
Similar attacks led to a humorous Russian saying, " I haven't read Pasternak, but I condemn him ".
Only Oliusha will, and I haven't had time to do anything for her.
As mentioned new personalities replace old ones ( as in Lionel / Tony Blairs — flairs ), or pop culture introduces new words — as in " I haven't a Scooby " ( from Scooby Doo, the eponymous cartoon dog of the cartoon series ) meaning " I haven't a clue ".

I and made
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I made you a man ''.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
`` Tell him I made a pass at you ''.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
I must say the figure was well made up.
Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
I reconstruct his sentences from notes made immediately after our conversation.
My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

I and up
`` I get up early.
Help me up, I feel kind of stiff ''.
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
I figger it's probl'y a sixty-five-mile walk, and I c'n maybe get this spring patched up in a couple of hours ''.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --
`` A body would swear I floated right up here on a cloud ''!!
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.
Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

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