Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [that] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
| 2 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 3 | Before we married , my husband and I agreed that we wanted children . |
| 4 | Denis and I agreed that we both would . |
| 5 | I phoned Fr Nick to express our sympathy and condolences and I said that we would offer 11.00 Mass to day for her . |
| 6 | does , , he came in one day and I said that we really do n't travel a lot you know |
| 7 | In this address I also criticised the fashion of ‘ deconstruction ’ , and I argued that we can effectively understand the cultures of alien peoples and remote epochs , although , naturally , we can also misunderstand them . |
| 8 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 9 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 10 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 11 | Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly . |
| 12 | Alec and I realized that we would only endanger our lives by trying to extract Father from where he lay and make a night climb with him . |
| 13 | John Chant asked how the above was progressing and I explained that we have had initial draft typeset — he has asked to see a copy which I have passed to him today . |
| 14 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 15 | Sally Drayton also had some time off early in that week and I suggested that we spend the Tuesday together . |
| 16 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 17 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 18 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 19 | Sue and I decided that we ought to go out and buy some stationery . |
| 20 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ This game told me that we need all our good players to be up and playing at their peak , but I felt that we did n't do that tonight . ’ |
| 22 | But I forgot that we are now in the era of the Leisure Jam . |
| 23 | But I mean he was very interested and when I said that we 'd actually done a recycling directory and that I was thinking |
| 24 | When I said that we would need a plant in our team , then would he be seen as being more of an innovator ? |
| 25 | I referred earlier to the excellence of the Home Office research and statistics department when I explained that we do not keep crime figures for the past 12 centuries . |
| 26 | Just as I realised that we would have to abort our manoeuvre in view of the ship 's overhanging davits there was a loud exclamation from the man on deck , " I say , Cynthia , the captain 's got a blasted parrot on his shoulder . " |
| 27 | We must think Jim of those people as I said that we are responsible for . |
| 28 | I had moved a table into a big window , for I foresaw that we should need all the help we could get from the view . |