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

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1 The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction .
2 ‘ Not in the least now that I 've had a chance to study you him .
3 ‘ Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared .
4 I have to carry my tetanus card so that if I was er injured and unconscious and not being able to say that I 've had the horse serum , the doctor thinking , Oh look look he 's got lots of soil in that cut , er give him a quick injection of the horse serum , that could actually be fatal .
5 I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction .
6 When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . "
7 ‘ I 'm sure you do , but Kitty must n't ever know that I 'd had a hand in it . ’
8 Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply .
9 I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too .
10 I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done .
11 After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection .
12 I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning .
13 They were so beautiful that I decided to have a go at growing them .
14 My Lord I can tell you that I do have a copy for the jury if your Lordship thinks .
15 My inheritance from those years is the belief maintained with some difficulty , that I do have a right to the earth .
16 However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated !
17 that I did have a brain and I was capable of doing things even though it was
18 ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’
19 The Series IIA Land Rover that I own has a petrol engine with Solex carburettor .
20 My other reason was that I wanted to have an opportunity for a more leisurely chat with you about your future . ’
21 You may not know , that I have had a book on philosophy published , and am working on another ; my superiors at London University College are pleased with me , and promotion seems probable .
22 I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that I have had a number of meetings with President Vassiliou during the year and that I have already met Turkish Ministers , as has my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary .
23 My wife and children have felt that their vocation in life was to carry on this early training so that I have had a lifetime 's pressure towards humility , reinforced by the effect of biblical meditation and involvement in the worship of the Church .
24 What is self-authenticating is the fact that I have had an experience .
25 But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating .
26 Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound .
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