Example sentences of "[vb past] that i have [art] " in BNC.

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1 In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football .
2 Then I mentioned that I had a Lawson Buford tuba solo from 1927 somewhere in my record collection and I was back in favour .
3 I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency , and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements .
4 I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job .
5 I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border .
6 It reported that I had an 80C88 CPU , CGA screen and 512Kb of RAM , but then another figure which seemed impossible showed up .
7 I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up .
8 And I realized that I had no family .
9 I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap .
10 At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) .
11 Thinking about it now , for the first time , I realized that I 'd no idea how a karaso was made : an arm-length shaft of wood , smooth and shiny as a newly opened conker , with five prongs at the end that were perfectly shaped into the smooth curves of a grasping hand .
12 I also realized that I have a responsibility , not only to young black kids but to all young people , of every colour and creed .
13 ‘ I soon realised that I had a very limited view of what venture capital was all about , ’ he recalls .
14 The only comment I wish to make at this stage is that the court recognised that I had no intention to act in defiance of an order of the court or to hold myself above the law .
15 Daphne was a curlyheaded blonde known as ‘ Snooty ’ , and although we were not natural friends , our predilection for cream buns brought us together — especially when she discovered that I had a never-ending source of supply .
16 Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier .
17 Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century .
18 This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted .
19 The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them .
20 But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery .
21 But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation .
22 As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies .
23 ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’
24 We were summoned to Buckingham Palace to discuss this , and as we approached the gates in my car , I remembered that I had a case of 250 cartridges in the boot .
25 Eventually the three of us were alone again , and I remembered that I had a large loft .
26 I thought , I must get it cut — and then I remembered that I had no money to waste on that sort of thing any more ; it would just have to grow , or I 'd have to cut it myself .
27 The nicest thing was when they printed that I had a tattoo of Reg Varney on my chest .
28 For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry .
29 He said that I had the ability to be not only Britain 's top sprinter but also number one in Europe .
30 I spoke again to the neurosurgical surgeon and explained that I had no choice but to send the patient , who needed urgent admission to casualty .
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