Example sentences of "[adv] that i have [vb pp] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 2 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
| 3 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 4 | To my astonishment , I learned a few weeks later that I had got the post . |
| 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 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that I 've seen the finished copy I 'm delighted that I encouraged Susan to write it , ’ said Mrs Major . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've worked out now that I 've hit the woodwork 10 times this season , so two inches either way and I could have had 14 goals instead of four , ’ he lamented . |
| 9 | This is my garden — and now that I 've dug the tunnel , I want you to think of it as your garden , too ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared . |
| 11 | ‘ Now that I 've got the car we can do things like that , ’ Edward went on . |
| 12 | ‘ Now that I 've got the handbrake off , ’ Dickinson said , ‘ I think it 'll be less of a struggle . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly . |
| 14 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 15 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 16 | I was against this sport all along , but it is only now that I have read the page in the Leicester Mercury that I feel bold enough to speak out to you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well that I 've got the willies that 's what |
| 20 | I have felt the weight of responsibility that that brings , and I have to admit to you as well that I have felt the temptations that are attendant to it . |