Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] that i have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I must admit that I have always assumed that ‘ last day ’ of one month compared with ‘ last day ’ of any other month , irrespective of actual date .
2 We both know what an outrageously male chauvinist pig you are , Ross — but , in case you have n't guessed , I find it very insulting that you should insinuate that I have somehow slept my way up to my present position ! ’
3 A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre .
4 The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York .
5 But you could say that I have never really stopped missing Mother .
6 As a younger person I , I would expect that I 've probably got another fifteen years to go to the menopause , but I 'm looking forward to it as a relief from pre-menstrual syndrome !
7 I will make sure that I meet you but I shall pretend that I have never seen you before .
8 ‘ I 'm quite disappointed by the sound of the amp — it 's just not there for me — although I would say that I 've always thought Trace Elliot had a kind of soul-less sound .
9 I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends .
10 It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it .
11 All the members here will know that I have recently erm sent out a circular letter expressing my concern as to where the system does n't seem to be working properly and asking for your help and cooperation in giving me information on just exactly where it is falling down .
12 I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first .
13 ‘ However , ’ Herbie continued , ‘ I will concede that I have never seen one as far upstream as this before . ’
14 When I die they can perform an autopsy and they will find that I have never ever taken an illegal substance .
15 I will own that I have often said and lamented that the library was not fit to be seen …
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