Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm afraid that my moment away from the phone also meant that I missed my opportunity to query whether I am really the right person for the job . |
| 32 | He also insisted that I put a notice in the local paper in order to thank ‘ … all friends , Welsh and English , for their kindness and support during his recent attack of lung cancer and was happy to report that he was now well on the way to recovery ’ . |
| 33 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 34 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 35 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 36 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 37 | They even demanded that I take a Wassermann test in order to be sure that I was n't suffering from syphilis . |
| 38 | Nothing could have been contrived to accord less well with his lovat green country suit and hat but , he explained , ‘ She simply insisted that I wear it . |
| 39 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 40 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 41 | ‘ Anyway , he then insisted that I went with him to a trade show in San Francisco . |
| 42 | I thought of Uncle Rory , then remembered that I had some more of his papers with me , and a load of his poems . |
| 43 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 44 | I do n't think she knew the crochet lady and I 'm sure neither knew that I had perfected the art of correcting typescript undetectably ! |
| 45 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 46 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 47 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 48 | The King could not persuade me , and unfortunately he never forgot that I had refused to do what he wanted . |
| 49 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |
| 50 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |