Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are . |
| 2 | But it helps a lot to know that I 've balanced the books . ’ |
| 3 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 4 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 5 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 6 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 7 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 8 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 9 | and tail , to confirm that I have missed |
| 10 | I have replied to all , and would like to report that I have negotiated a suitable figure with Christina Littler and Bob Haddon of Birmingham who will take possession before the end of May . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you are being excessively flattering , to suggest that I have put it ‘ all ’ together . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to marry Syl , ’ I said , surprised to hear that I had spoken aloud . |
| 13 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 14 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 15 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 16 | Er in order to do that I 've got to give you various reassurances . |
| 17 | ‘ Tomorrow I wo n't be able to believe that I 've seen and touched you , Heathcliff ! ’ she cried , catching hold of his hands . |
| 18 | You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know whether David would agree , but my experience as a teacher was that I certainly encountered , I realize now , in my teaching career , children with dyslexia and yet no-one had told me , in my training , anything about this condition and I do n't think I was in a position until later , in a sense , to recognise that I had seen children with this difficulty . |
| 20 | I 've always felt that he ought to know how I 'm feeling — to realise that I 've got problems too . |
| 21 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
| 22 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 23 | ‘ It might interest you to learn that I 've changed my opinion on that matter , ’ he admitted drily . |
| 24 | I am writing to advise that I have taken over the role of Computer Liaison Officer for the Trading Standards Department . |
| 25 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 26 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd begun to think that I 'd scared you away . |
| 28 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 29 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 30 | To think that I have contributed to the felling of trees so that the myopic gropings of a pseudo-intellectual can be printed ( History of the World NI 196 ) . |