Example sentences of "[pron] [that] i have [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ as if nothing that I 'd ever done mattered , only that I was here , part of the earth , at one with it , as they say . |
2 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
3 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
4 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
5 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
6 | Something whispered to me that I have never myself been converted ! … |
7 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
8 | Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July . |
9 | ‘ Oh , I might as well tell you that I 've always known I was being unfair to you , using sex to hold on to you . ’ |
10 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
11 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
12 | I can assure you that I did and I can assure you that I have already thanked him on behalf of the Council , shook his hand and said how well he done it , but if you 'd like a letter to go to say how well he done it , then I 'll send a letter telling him how well he done it . |
13 | I am pleased to be able to tell you that I have now received your referee 's comments and that the result of your medical assessment was satisfactory . |
14 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
15 | Right , this is a fashion plate ; a ball dress in the eighteen-forties , and I 'm just showing this actually to make another point ; sort of change of direction maybe , because I 'm now going to almost undo everything that I 've just said , and say that this was the fashion , high fashion of the eighteen forties . |
16 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
17 | And so this woman , she did n't preach a sermon , but she does give her a testament , she goes back and she gets the folk in the village , and she says , come see someone , meet someone , let me introduce you to someone who has told me everything that I have ever done ! |
18 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
19 | going into something that I 'd never done before . |
20 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |
21 | But it 's one that I 've already decided to put right . |
22 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
23 | The answer to the hon. Gentleman 's question about the Ministry is the one that I have just given . |
24 | ‘ I regard your book as practically the only one that I have ever come across , since Dante , that shows the slightest understanding of what this very peculiar identity of love and religion means , ’ Williams wrote , signing himself ‘ Very gratefully yours ’ . |
25 | Would you tell him that I 've carefully s did those on . |
26 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
27 | I must tell him that I have recently written to all the representative small business organisations in the United Kingdom asking them to give me examples of where excessive regulation is impeding their business . |
28 | I confess to him that I have never done Kipling Groove and he launches into a celebration of Arthur Dolphin 's famous classic . |
29 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
30 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |