Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized .
2 I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like .
3 I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated .
4 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
5 When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one .
6 The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs .
7 Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed .
8 Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order .
9 Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle .
10 Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ .
11 Ellen said in a tone which implied that I had entirely misunderstood the senator 's motives , which she would now have to explain to me by the application of sound feminist arguments .
12 I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced .
13 I felt that I had never seen anyone so old .
14 He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off !
15 I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘
16 I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once .
17 ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed .
18 I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
19 I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education .
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