Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |
| 2 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 3 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 4 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 5 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 6 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 7 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 8 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 9 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 10 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 11 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 12 | I was trying to think of rubbish that I 'd taken out . |
| 13 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 14 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 15 | you 'll you 'll be very comfortable with it and I can tell you now that 's one of the things that I got tied up with so |
| 16 | I must admit that I got fed up with pursuing it and I think it 's like banging your head against a brick wall in the end . |
| 17 | Now it was there that we became separated , I developed a very bad throat and could not fly , just before we were ready to leave for overseas as in his crew and the other crews that were there went on whereas I got held back and of course the way I feel about it is that that week that I got held back , saved my life . |
| 18 | I when I went , you know when I went down , do you remember I told you that I got caught up with him ? |
| 19 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 20 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 21 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 22 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 23 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 24 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 25 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 26 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 27 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 28 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 29 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 30 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |