Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 2 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 3 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 4 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 5 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 6 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 7 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 8 | As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed . |
| 9 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 10 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 11 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 12 | Towards the end of the war I realised that I had had both friends and enemies at Southern Command . |
| 13 | ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued . |
| 14 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 15 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 16 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 17 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 18 | By the end of ‘ Great Expectations ’ I found that I had enjoyed the book and had found it thought provoking and interesting . |
| 19 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 20 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 21 | The formalities took some weeks , but by the end of July 1939 , I learnt that I had got the job . |
| 22 | Moving outside to fit the new cylinder , I noticed that I had dropped the tiny rubber washer that fitted between the cylinder and stove . |
| 23 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 24 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 25 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 26 | I replied that I wanted to do research . |
| 27 | As the years passed I discovered that I had developed a special school ‘ personality ’ which was a distortion of myself . |
| 28 | I discovered that I had become a ‘ character ’ and was fast becoming a caricature of myself . |
| 29 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 30 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |