Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] that i have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I found out that I had appeared fierce and unapproachable . |
| 2 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 3 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
| 4 | I was ill , but he did n't know actually that I had used that method . |
| 5 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 'll have to let me finish now that I 've started , ’ he said . |
| 7 | More recently , Jourgensen himself told a journalist : ‘ I read somewhere that I had contracted AIDS and was visiting a Mexican treatment centre . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 10 | I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really . |
| 11 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 12 | If you are , I 'll sign now that I 've tried this treatment without your approval . ’ |
| 13 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 14 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |
| 15 | And if they find out that I 've had cookery , I 'm dead ! |
| 16 | I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker … |
| 17 | It was then that some international misunderstanding arose , because the President of South Africa was at the race too and a rumour got around that I had engineered the trip to talk with the South Africans , which of course was not true . |
| 18 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 19 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 20 | Jesus said some strong things about the Old Testament : " Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets ; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them . |
| 21 | ‘ To tell you the truth , Aycliffe , I was so devilish put out that I had determined to shake the dust of this place from my heels forever ! ’ |
| 22 | Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself . |
| 23 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 24 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 25 | I always wish now that I 'd met him . |
| 26 | I used to make out that I 'd changed . |
| 27 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |