Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ . |
| 2 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 3 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 4 | My master 's plan was so successful that he arranged to show me again on the next market day . |
| 5 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 6 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 7 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 8 | Now , in Rome , Frank turned to Mac and reminded him , in front of me , that he had said I was responsible for messing up the change-over . |
| 9 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 10 | Now I understood Francis 's will not to be so simple a matter , also that he had believed I knew about it . |
| 11 | I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me . |
| 12 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 13 | I wanted to get back to myself and to my own work , to all that he had robbed me of — even my own name . |
| 14 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 15 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 16 | When I got out of the ditch I felt very shocked , and unable to believe that he had missed me . |
| 17 | Regretfully , the young gentleman told him that he had quoted me the price to the trade , and for a retail sale it would be slightly more expensive , i.e. £36 plus VAT . |
| 18 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |
| 19 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 20 | He was telling us that we were all he had left , that he did love me . |
| 21 | Apart from other things , I 'm not bringing into court the fact that he liked to beat me . |
| 22 | ’ That he tried to kill me ? ’ |
| 23 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 24 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 25 | Howard Hawks , who owned my contract , always said that he wanted to put me in a film with either Bogie , or Cary Grant , and I always thought , ‘ Oh , Cary Grant , naturally , how great that would be . ’ |
| 26 | But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . ) |
| 27 | Another boy wrote me a postcard saying that he wanted to marry me tomorrow ! |