Example sentences of "[conj] that i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that I 've got a vagina . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 3 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 4 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 5 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 6 | Or ‘ I had a binge last night and I 've no excuse , except that I 've got a terrible hangover this morning and I 'll try again tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Except that I have lost one of my shoes . |
| 9 | There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end . |
| 10 | Other than that I 've got nothing to do . |
| 11 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 12 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 13 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 14 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 15 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 16 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |
| 17 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 18 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 19 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 20 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 21 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 22 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 23 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 24 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 25 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 26 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 27 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 28 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 29 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 30 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |