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 . |