Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yes you do go on tell i what have I just been telling you then that you need to concentrate on that I think you should be concentrating on .
2 ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife .
3 It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain .
4 He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it !
5 ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’
6 Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me .
7 How can anything matter now that I have you ? ’
8 I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error .
9 On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them .
10 This , I believe now that I examine it , is because underneath this thought , like a warm underblanket , is a reassuring additional thought , viz :
11 Well let me put it to you like this , I feel sometimes that I need something ,
12 When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you .
13 Erm however we would wish to see that policy complemented by the inclusion of the strategic exceptions policy erm and we know that I know that 's to be discussed tomorrow but I will mention now that I think it would have been much more useful to the discussion if we 'd have been able to discuss the strategic sites issue as part of this debate .
14 I felt then that I understood her .
15 I knew then that I loved him and I would do anything for him , no matter what .
16 I knew then that I loved you , more than anything in the world , more than life itself ! ’
17 I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were .
18 I would add only that I find myself quite unable to see how referring to the reports of Parliamentary debates in order to determine the meaning of the words which Parliament has employed could possibly be construed as ‘ questioning ’ or ‘ impeaching ’ the freedom of speech or debate or proceedings in Parliament or as otherwise infringing the provisions of article 9 of the Bill of Rights .
19 It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition .
20 Not quite able to turn this down , he insists instead that I telephone him on Saturday morning to confirm .
21 You may say also that I think it well that the musters of the northern counties should prepare themselves for possible action against the Scots at the same date , and those along the south coast should be ready to resist any assault by sea from my enemies in Europe .
22 He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff …
23 The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales .
24 ‘ You mean we have n't had flowers in the house for four months and you never suggested before that I do it ? ’
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