Example sentences of "that [conj] i [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
2 | She said that if I came here to the island and said I was sorry you 'd welcome me with open arms . ’ |
3 | I reckoned , however , that if I went back to Edinburgh , I could see Leslie for the occasional ‘ forty-eight hours ’ . |
4 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
5 | I just knew that if I flew back on Aeroflot , I would be stuck somewhere in the ex-USSR locked in a small cell with lots of sticky orange substance , trying to write some new country 's first entry into the Eurovision song contest . |
6 | I know that if I broke down in my car , wherever I was in the country , whatever time of night it was , Pete would come to the rescue . |
7 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
8 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
9 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
10 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
11 | I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village . |