Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] that i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like . |
| 2 | I happened to mention that I did n't much like my sister 's husband . |
| 3 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 4 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
| 5 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 6 | I had to say that I had not . |
| 7 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
| 8 | Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all . |