Example sentences of "[adv] that i have [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church .
2 I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for .
3 While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there .
4 Mm , yeah well I will be with you in a minute darling , it 's just that I 've got a
5 No it 's just that I 've got a lot of trousers up there that are far too big for me now that might fit him
6 Well I understand that you get fifteen , it 's just that I 've got a lot of customer where I got business that is depending on the kind of insurance that we give them , based on what our
7 It 's not wa with a microphone it 's just that I 've got a little socket for a microphone .
8 ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you .
9 I want to know that someone out there cares for me , not that I 've got no one or nothing .
10 Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me .
11 It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice .
12 Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out .
13 That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad .
14 I know at once that I 've made a fool of myself .
15 To my astonishment , I learned a few weeks later that I had got the post .
16 I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’
17 I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too .
18 You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’
19 Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo .
20 Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up .
21 Now that I 've seen the finished copy I 'm delighted that I encouraged Susan to write it , ’ said Mrs Major .
22 ‘ I 've worked out now that I 've hit the woodwork 10 times this season , so two inches either way and I could have had 14 goals instead of four , ’ he lamented .
23 This is my garden — and now that I 've dug the tunnel , I want you to think of it as your garden , too ! ’
24 ‘ Not in the least now that I 've had a chance to study you him .
25 Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared .
26 I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker …
27 Now that I 've got the car we can do things like that , ’ Edward went on .
28 Now that I 've got the handbrake off , ’ Dickinson said , ‘ I think it 'll be less of a struggle .
29 Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly .
30 Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine .
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