Example sentences of "i [adv] [adv] [vb past] that " in BNC.

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1 I long ago noted that to a doctor keeping confidences meant telling your patient nothing and his relatives everything .
2 I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine .
3 I still constantly feared that he would die .
4 I also , I also actually said that a co a country that does not promote and sustain its cultural heritage in the widest sense of its world w in a word e er i is a country without a history and if you lose your social history and your culture , then you ca n't progress
5 The truth was , I never again experienced that warm , urgent magic I had felt with the actor — I never again saw an ordinary , or even ugly face change and become Apollo-like through the intervention of love .
6 Apparently the demand of the fashion of the time was for Navy blue , and I never even noticed that the slightest change in shade was incorporated into the front and hack panels of a jacket or trousers .
7 Furthermore , I never even hinted that Hartley did n't know about these tube factories in Czechoslovakia and China .
8 I should explain that I never once thought that he should ‘ give way to me ’ — as Nonni said he should — because I was ill ; only because , as I told him , I had always thought of him as ‘ a reasonable human being with some pretensions to morality ’ .
9 But I very soon noticed that , over the two beds nearest to mine , was the highly interesting word ‘ spiritualist ’ .
10 But I very soon found that I was much more like the companionable dog !
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