Example sentences of "[coord] that i had [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’
2 I told her who I was , and that I had met her father .
3 That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory .
4 He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers .
5 He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student .
6 I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire .
7 One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him .
8 I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether .
9 It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much .
10 She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted .
11 I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this .
12 Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door .
13 After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection .
14 She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming .
15 I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire .
16 The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were .
17 They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start .
18 ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara .
19 I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now .
20 I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God .
21 But that I had deceived .
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