Example sentences of "i have [verb] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
2 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
3 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
4 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
5 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
6 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
7 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
8 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
9 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
10 | I had to say that I had not . |
11 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
12 | I had to admit that I envied Sam and Nolan . |
13 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
14 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
15 | Well when Margaret suggested er doing a project on French polishing , I had to admit that I did n't really know what French polishing was . |
16 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
17 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
18 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
19 | I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all . |
20 | On a personal level , I have to say that I found the fellowship 's officials to be delightfully hospitable and to have a genuine love for God . |
21 | Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me . |
22 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
23 | I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful . |
24 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
25 | We stood together in the entrance hall of the theatre where the show is produced , but I have to confess that I did n't recognize him . |
26 | It is not a sign of high status in a man 's world to be in charge of women only , but I have to confess that I did n't find it unpleasant . |
27 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
28 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |
29 | He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ . |
30 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |