Example sentences of "i have [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed .
2 I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went
3 Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’
4 In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores .
5 ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’
6 But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married .
7 I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little .
8 I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened .
9 Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside .
10 I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin .
11 But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them .
12 Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ?
13 I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers .
14 I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter .
15 I 've found that regular spraying has little effect when the air is dry for so long .
16 I 've learned that this year , ’ continues Simmons .
17 I have reached that perverse age in life ( why be coy — it 's 46 ) when contemporaries start growing younger .
18 I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular .
19 I have to say that neither piece is vintage Schumann , but when the old magic really starts to work ( as in the ‘ Gloria ’ and ‘ Agnus Dei ’ of the Requiem ) , one is left in no doubt that Schumann 's was a creative mind of the very first order .
20 He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’
21 ‘ As an investor , I have to say that this environment does not allow me to put more money into Hong Kong .
22 Now I that 's a luxury I have to say that most recruiting people do not get .
23 It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) .
24 In this paper I have argued that criminal law is an extremely sophisticated , demanding and complex subject which can be presented as an ‘ introductory ’ course in legal education only by serious amputation and therefore distortion .
25 Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level .
26 But it is a central implication of the argument I have presented that this price will have to be paid .
27 I have heard that one day there will priestless parishes , and communion services conducted by special eucharistic ministers .
28 But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can .
29 Like middle age , this takes me unawares , for even when I have noticed that single paragraph on the front page of newspapers , I still ca n't work out what is happening .
30 And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled .
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