Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 2 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 3 | there were some of them that I had missed er completely but |
| 4 | It 's because I 'm so deuced fond of you that I 've got to speak out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Is there something wrong with me that I felt such a blankness ? |
| 6 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 7 | If I was still having the baby I daresay I 'd consider it , but losing it made it quite clear to me that I did n't want what he offered . ’ |
| 8 | They are all individuals to me , there 's something about each of them that I love . |
| 9 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , Shelley , there 's so much of me that I thought was dead , coming alive in this place . |
| 11 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 12 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 13 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 14 | What do I what is so important to me that I want to spend all this time on it ? |
| 15 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 16 | Why is it so important to you that I admit I 'm a thief ? |
| 17 | It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed . |
| 18 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 19 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 20 | Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair . |
| 21 | It is by comparison with the published criteria and all the information available to me that I have reached a judgment . |
| 22 | It will be apparent to you that I have , in my way , the largest ambitions . |
| 23 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 24 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 26 | Then he said : ‘ You have been so kind to us that I want to do something for you in return . |
| 27 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |