Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard . |
| 32 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 33 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 34 | If I needed any proof that I bore you , that you do n't care about me — ’ |
| 35 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 36 | It was in the winter of 1987–88 that I announced I was going to race mostly in Britain in Olympic year . |
| 37 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |
| 38 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 39 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 40 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 41 | Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him . |
| 42 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 43 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 44 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 45 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 46 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 47 | ‘ Trying to ensure that I remember you 're now my husband ? ’ she enquired sweetly . |
| 48 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
| 49 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 50 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 51 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 52 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 53 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
| 54 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 55 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 56 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 57 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 58 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 59 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 60 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |