Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The trouble is , Loretta , that I 've discovered I do n't like students .
2 What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable .
3 ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others .
4 ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse .
5 I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself .
6 Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’
7 You are curious , you are looking for something else , because this is the second time that you have invited me to have a drink , you order cheiro as though you were one of us , you are a foreigner and pretend to speak like us , yet you drink little and then you stay silent and wait for me to speak .
8 .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas .
9 Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe .
10 They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television .
11 The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results .
12 It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing .
13 ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me .
14 Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were .
15 Now I understood Francis 's will not to be so simple a matter , also that he had believed I knew about it .
16 I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play .
17 Perhaps it 's that he 's made me look at myself and see that what I believe is old and stuffy .
18 I shall ensure that the message that he has asked me to convey is conveyed tomorrow , when I go to Barrow to mark the roll-out of the first Vanguard submarine .
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