Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both enthused over my new look and I became weepy and wailed that I could n't keep them . |
| 2 | ‘ I was so nervous and fatigued that I could n't concentrate . |
| 3 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 4 | Two booklets said that the president of the USA was a Communist and suggested that I should ‘ … buy a gun now and form a secret minuteman team ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 6 | Mum was somewhat cross and suggested that I should go to meet Dad who had gone to his allotment and confess my indiscretion . |
| 7 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |