Example sentences of "that [subord] i have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , towards the end , he said , ‘ I am convinced that where I have failed no one could have succeeded , ’ this appeared not a boast , but an understatement . |
| 2 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 3 | , he 's probably widdleing nothing , poor that was n't worth sitting down for , no to think that once I 've gone on , which I did on Friday , I 'm now on my way out the other end |
| 4 | And I think that once I 've taken e a few of the local bigwigs , then when they want a photograph taken , my name 'll get mentioned somewhere along the line and they might come to me . |
| 5 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 6 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 7 | Rod said : ‘ I was shocked to be told that if I had waited any longer before seeking help I would not have survived . |
| 8 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 9 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 10 | ‘ And do you really think that if I had taken something of your aunt 's I would be stupid enough to wear it to work ? ’ |
| 11 | Even awake I feel that if I had sat on there , I might have kept it forever . |
| 12 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 13 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 14 | The Reds were well on top and I am sure that if I had lasted the game I would have given the selectors something to think about . |
| 15 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 16 | I can say to you right now with confidence that if I 'd asked you to start writing er a list of the categories that people er that you think might advertise in these you 'd probably get about twenty five . |
| 17 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 18 | If I were to go in now , thought Rupert , I should attract far more attention that if I 'd gone earlier . |
| 19 | With hindsight , it 's clear that I was too single-minded about racing , too immersed , and that if I 'd paced myself better the joy would have lasted much longer . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 21 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 22 | I have to admit that if I 'd known that I would n't have asked to have you seconded to Carlisle Flint … ’ |
| 23 | Because er we 've done sort of I must Where did I write that if I 've lost that list , I suppose to keep Erm , Ron , tin and then you 've got hankies did n't you ? |
| 24 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 25 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 26 | ‘ I know that 's what you imagine , and I guess I 've let you believe that because I had become so accustomed to my privacy that I did n't care for your intrusion into it , but you 're wrong . |
| 27 | I think too that because I had postponed rather than rejected sexuality , the latter model was even less acceptable . |
| 28 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 29 | Do I , she asked herself , imagine that because I have lost a man I am in the same category as spotty Betty ? |
| 30 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |