Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 2 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 3 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 4 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 5 | At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit . |
| 6 | So much so that I had to threaten to call the police . ’ |
| 7 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 8 | Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else . |
| 9 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 10 | I wanted him to tear it from me so that I had no excuses . |
| 11 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |
| 12 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |
| 13 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 14 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 15 | I wished intensely that I had the power to see into Filmer 's mind . |
| 16 | More recently , Jourgensen himself told a journalist : ‘ I read somewhere that I had contracted AIDS and was visiting a Mexican treatment centre . ’ |
| 17 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 18 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 19 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 20 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
| 21 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 23 | Erm , it 's just that I had , I 'd told the auditors about but I do n't think that anybody 's and I was unsure we should do that with . |
| 24 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 25 | Like Lotus 1-2-3 and SuperCalc , Quattro Pro 's printer support is very good — although having to tell all these programs individually that I had an HP LaserJet IIIsi made me realize how easy it is telling Windows just the once for all your applications . |
| 26 | Full of good intentions I declared quite sincerely that I had a dog in my rucksack . |
| 27 | I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it . |
| 28 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 29 | So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby . |
| 30 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |