Example sentences of "that i [vb past] what [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then .
2 ‘ It was only when the doorbell rang and two more couples joined us that I realised what he had in mind . ’
3 John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done .
4 It was n't until later that I realised what it was .
5 Let me tell the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) that I heard what he said about this matter on Thursday , and I agree with him .
6 ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’
7 I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought .
8 With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid .
9 He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about .
10 The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ .
11 The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not .
12 Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation .
13 Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me .
14 It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then .
15 Her voice was very earnest , as though it was desperately important that I understood what she said .
16 He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said .
17 This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) .
18 It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend .
19 It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience .
20 I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error .
21 But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe .
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