Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] that i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 2 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 3 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 4 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 5 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |