Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea .
2 It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself .
3 ‘ In view of your opinion of me , it wo n't surprise you to know that I 've been out with a couple of the other men from the station over the past week , ’ Maria volunteered stormily , halting and then swinging round to face him again .
4 It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer .
5 Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’
6 I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day ,
7 I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad .
8 Dept. , Convocation and alumni to learn that I have been elected Vice-President of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education .
9 ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that .
10 Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ?
11 When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up .
12 Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum .
13 My last migraine of any consequence was over four months ago , but I would not be so brash as to say that I have been cured .
14 To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement .
15 One seldom gets on well with one 's family if one has the impression that one is better than them , and I used to dream that I had been found , abandoned in mysterious circumstances .
16 Gail , 25 , who slept with her gold medal round her neck over the weekend , said : ‘ I 've got to admit that I 've been back and forth through hell on the way to Barcelona . ’
17 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
18 When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village .
19 ‘ I 'm beginning to feel that I 've been here before , ’ she murmured .
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