Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 2 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 3 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
| 4 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 5 | I was so overcome that I approached Shell and offered to buy it . ’ |
| 6 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 7 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 8 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 9 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 10 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 11 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 12 | I was simply told that I had no vocation . |
| 13 | ‘ Even today I was n't presuming that I had been chosen . ’ |