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 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 3 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 4 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 5 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 6 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 7 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 8 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 9 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | take it from me that I have n't seen one and if there is one I 'd be grateful if somebody on your site would point it out , but to my knowledge no such document has been disclosed . |
| 14 | They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months . |
| 15 | Something whispered to me that I have never myself been converted ! … |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Those years had an intensity , a singularity and a sense of joy about them that I have not known before or since . |
| 18 | He tells them that I have not gone , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | 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 . |