Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post .
2 Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that ,
3 That I 'd actually done it I suppose .
4 That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course .
5 " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . "
6 I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained .
7 On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there .
8 Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ?
9 Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome .
10 The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : …
11 I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well .
12 Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish .
13 ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’
14 You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife .
15 I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first .
16 ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them .
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