Example sentences of "and that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 2 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 3 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 4 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 5 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 6 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 7 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 8 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 9 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 10 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 11 | The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape . |
| 12 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 13 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 14 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 15 | The nagging doubt remains , however , that the thing might have looked blue to me , and that I had simply not realised that it was to the thing 's colour that I was expected to respond . |
| 16 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 17 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 18 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 19 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 20 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |
| 21 | And that I had the nerve and the cheek , the audacity to be tired at fifteen years of age i i it it it was n't possible . |
| 22 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 23 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 24 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 25 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 26 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 27 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 28 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 29 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 30 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |