Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] i have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 2 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 3 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 4 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
| 5 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 6 | The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs . |
| 7 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 8 | Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed . |
| 9 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 10 | I know that I have only a few hours left to live , but I can feel my loved ones near me , and I welcome death . |
| 11 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe that I have never worked with kitsch . |
| 13 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 15 | and I 've re I have quite a high awareness about women 's position in society , but because of that I feel that I 've now come to reject the term feminism because erm I think it 's also harming the people who , you know , it 's harming the women that are holding on to that er , label because it is label and that is erm because it 's , because it 's a label it then it 's blocking er forms progress for women . |
| 16 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 17 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 18 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 19 | Personally , I doubt that I have ever completely recovered from my first experience of a communal shower almost 20 years ago . |
| 20 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 21 | The conclusion seems to be that if I recognize that I have once wrongly claimed to know that p , then I can not ever claim to know that p unless I can show a relevant difference between the two cases . |
| 22 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 23 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 24 | I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times . |
| 25 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 26 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 27 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 28 | Ellen said in a tone which implied that I had entirely misunderstood the senator 's motives , which she would now have to explain to me by the application of sound feminist arguments . |
| 29 | ‘ It may interest you to know that I 've just had Mr Standish on the phone . |
| 30 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |