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

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1 On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day .
2 I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess .
3 I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards .
4 Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’
5 I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it .
6 I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her .
7 I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission .
8 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
9 This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance .
10 I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad .
11 P.S. I forgot to say that I left a small memento at his grave .
12 Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons .
13 One day I happened to mention that I did n't know one end of a bomb from the other , and wondered out loud what the bomb dump looked like .
14 I happened to mention that I did n't much like my sister 's husband .
15 ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live .
16 I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once .
17 And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her .
18 The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father !
19 I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning .
20 ‘ If you remember , Robyn , ’ he replied crisply , ‘ I did say that I wanted this work completed by the end of the summer .
21 I did say that I did n't want any , ’ Robyn declared coolly .
22 I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another .
23 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
24 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
25 Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her .
26 I had to say that I had not .
27 When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village .
28 I had to admit that I envied Sam and Nolan .
29 I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good .
30 Sheepishly I had to admit that I did not yet have one .
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