Example sentences of "[pron] that i had " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |
| 32 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 33 | for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was |
| 34 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 35 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 36 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 37 | there were some of them that I had missed er completely but |
| 38 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 39 | And I 'd like to know how many damned times I 'm supposed to tell you that I had no motives either ! ’ |
| 40 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 41 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 42 | I detailed my education , A Level results , the particulars of my brothers and sisters , everything that I had done while in the Territorial Army and my minimal brush with the law . |
| 43 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 44 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 45 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 46 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 47 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 48 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 49 | There was one that I had to throw away because it was erm |
| 50 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 51 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 52 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 53 | I told him that I had the one that was n't — but had no symptoms at all and even felt ‘ high ’ . |
| 54 | The other day , I ‘ phoned Robert at college to tell him that I had photographed his favourite aircraft that morning . |
| 55 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 56 | I had told him that I had met Fairfax . |
| 57 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Back down here I told him that I had to get the sex business cleared up . |
| 60 | I told him that I had watched cows being milked — that was all — but I liked the look of it . |