Example sentences of "[that] i 've " in BNC.

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1 Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it .
2 Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’
3 ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’
4 ‘ I 'm sorry that I 've got you all so worried .
5 ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said .
6 I know at once that I 've made a fool of myself .
7 There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering .
8 ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour .
9 The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital .
10 The fact that I 've seen no film for some time that is more sexually honest is actually beside the point .
11 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
12 ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’
13 I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend .
14 The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody .
15 ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing .
16 Vulgar song , but I 'm demonstrating that I 've seen the light at last .
17 ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears .
18 It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all .
19 It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months .
20 School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight .
21 A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself .
22 Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense .
23 The sad part is that I 've come to hate my body so much , I blame it for everything , and now I ca n't let anyone get close to me , to reassure me . ’
24 On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight .
25 The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once .
26 The resulting chaos was so memorable that I 've never dared take a holiday during a conference again !
27 Or that I 've got a vagina .
28 It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed .
29 This is the first visit that I 've made to Europe since my escape from Germany in 1940 .
30 He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’
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