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 .
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