Example sentences of "[that] i had [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 2 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 3 | Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed . |
| 4 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 5 | Largely forgotten until recently , Watson 's fine sun-dappled landscapes had elegant figure studies have begun to reappear in London galleries , including Richard Green , and Blamey was surprised that I had heard of him . |
| 6 | I just rea I mean I knew that I had heard of it then I realized . |
| 7 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 8 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 9 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 10 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 13 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 14 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 15 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 16 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 17 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 18 | I told her all that I had read of him . |
| 19 | The discipline that I had experienced in my schools in Kingston was just not there . |
| 20 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |