Example sentences of "[v-ing] that i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 2 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I 've come to — ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In the same way as some people might go to church and seek absolution , accepting that I have confessed to these sins makes me feel better . |
| 5 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 6 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 8 | I touched his chest , remembering that I had wanted to desert him once . |
| 9 | but talking estimating the next one is that the one that we 'd originally called Talking Print Buying that I 'd got |
| 10 | Vulgar song , but I 'm demonstrating that I 've seen the light at last . |
| 11 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 12 | you 're , you 're , you 're saying that I 've got to do ? |
| 13 | Saying that I 've got me notice on a Monday |
| 14 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 15 | When he started to inquire about my life , I deflected the conversation by saying that I had sold one of the famille rose vases . |
| 16 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 17 | In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong . |
| 18 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 19 | My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow . |
| 20 | I put up with with it then , knowing that I had chosen it . |
| 21 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 22 | Referring to complaining neighbours the Hanleys she said : ‘ I just do n't know how they can sleep at night next door because I could n't , knowing that I 'd done that to someone . ’ |
| 23 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 24 | I could not sleep knowing that I have done nothing . ’ |
| 25 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 26 | Nor , incidentally , will there be any point in my arguing that I have voted for Hazel on personal grounds and with no political intention : Hazel is a Nutty Party candidate and will if elected accept that Party 's whip . |
| 27 | Right now then that 's dealt with all the matters arising that I 've got down . |
| 28 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 29 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |