Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that time that I got cayleyed I did n't realise I |
| 2 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 3 | As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now . |
| 4 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 5 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
| 6 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 7 | ‘ When she arrived at his flat one night and told him that she had left me after admitting everything , he was furious . |
| 8 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 9 | My sister , Mrs Joe Gargery , was very proud of the fact that she had brought me up ‘ by hand ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 11 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |
| 12 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 13 | The message was clear enough , she 'd bet the others she could con a free drink out of me , probably not letting on that she 'd seen me before . |
| 14 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 15 | Another time I was so fascinated by her clicking needles that she offered to teach me to knit as well . |
| 16 | I had promised to go round the shops looking for something suitable , since my mother had shown that she wished to accompany me . |
| 17 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 18 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 19 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |
| 20 | I can see now that you had to test me a little . |
| 21 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 22 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 23 | ‘ But the physician who works in the royal household said that you wanted to see me immediately . |
| 24 | ‘ I had a message that you wanted to see me urgently , ’ Tom said . |
| 25 | ‘ I got a message that you wanted to see me , ’ said the driver . |
| 26 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 27 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 28 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 29 | Later I found that they had put me in prison because of my madness . |
| 30 | I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock . |