Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 2 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 3 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 4 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 5 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 6 | It was difficult to remember that I had ever thought of him as a schoolboy . |
| 7 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to marry Syl , ’ I said , surprised to hear that I had spoken aloud . |
| 9 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 10 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 11 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 12 | ‘ The way you 're likely to believe that I had a sneaking admiration , a liking for this little harbinger of bad news ? |
| 13 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The teachers soon started to realise that I had this huge fascination for birds . |
| 16 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I lied about everything : the size , style and location of my home ; the possessions and social pursuits of my parents ; and I even omitted to mention that I had sisters who went to ‘ inferior ’ schools . |
| 19 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 20 | I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan . |
| 21 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 22 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 23 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 24 | I , I wo n't take up long , much of your time , I just did n't want anyone to think that I had er given up in my old position not to be a no doubt , I believe other measures could have been taken . |
| 25 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 26 | I had to say that I had not . |
| 27 | Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ? |
| 28 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 29 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
| 30 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |