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

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1 I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like .
2 I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated .
3 I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting .
4 I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized .
5 It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident .
6 I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else .
7 The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs .
8 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
9 At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me .
10 Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed .
11 ‘ When I heard that I went straight into the toilet and threw up .
12 I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced .
13 I felt that I had never seen anyone so old .
14 By tea-time I felt that I conformed more to the recognized pattern of an escaper .
15 I knew that I wanted neither , but was n't sure that I had the strength or conviction to refuse them should they be prescribed .
16 I thought that I looked so smart in my white shoes , shorts , shirt and three cornered hat .
17 I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘
18 Well I 've got the little blue packet yeah and I 'm screaming yeah I thought that I won about a hundred pounds or something yeah .
19 I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
20 He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy .
21 Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle .
22 He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off !
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