Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 2 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 3 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 4 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 5 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 6 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 7 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 8 | Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed . |
| 9 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 10 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 11 | Ellen said in a tone which implied that I had entirely misunderstood the senator 's motives , which she would now have to explain to me by the application of sound feminist arguments . |
| 12 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 13 | I was astonished to read Ben Moon saying in the July issue of Climber that I had never climbed an 8c . |
| 14 | It was the first time that I had ever seen the inside of a police cell . |
| 15 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |