Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 2 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 4 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 5 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 6 | I naïvely thought that we had something special going for us . |
| 7 | When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked . |
| 8 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 9 | But may I politely suggest that in future they beat their meat in the privacy of their own studio instead of soiling our evening with such toss ? |
| 10 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 11 | When I obtained the death certificate of Thomas Batty ( 1882 ) , I read that he had lived at Mastington ; I eventually discovered that this was a copyist 's error for Markington . |
| 12 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 13 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 14 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 15 | I humbly suggest that the two counties should get together . |
| 16 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 17 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , I 'm not a feminist as such but I have to admit I rather resent that remark ! |
| 19 | ‘ I rather thought that was it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I rather thought that was pretty sensational . |
| 21 | ‘ I rather thought that was the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 22 | Yet it was hard to imagine a burglar visiting the rue de Sèvres : I rather imagined that this would be where he lived . |
| 23 | ‘ I rather enjoyed that in a funny way , ’ said Helen . |
| 24 | He recorded the seven pieces out of order , however , and I rather wish that the transfer engineers had re-grouped the numbers according to the order of the score . |
| 25 | No , no I 'd I rather suspect that the erm , the cancelled the contract . |
| 26 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 27 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 28 | We landed Phil at Yarmouth , Isle of Wight , to receive a mild rebuke from the Senior Naval Officer about lack of communication and swanning around without lights , but I rather think that Phil gave as good as he got . |
| 29 | Yes , they were appointed by the County Council so I sup and er I , I rather think that they , we never got paid but I rather think th they 'd have to pay the Council something for the midwife 's services . |
| 30 | Erm you probably all know Murphy 's law that what can go wrong will go wrong , when I looked at the Oil Service Industry in last year , I rather think that Murphy was a bit of an optimist myself . |