Example sentences of "[adj] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'm glad that I caught you . |
| 32 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 33 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
| 34 | My son was so feeble that I thought I would lose him at birth . |
| 35 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 36 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 37 | It was n't until she was really ill that I realised she was mine and I loved her more than anything . |
| 38 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
| 39 | In fact I was sure that I knew who it was , and I thought Mala must be too . |
| 40 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 41 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 42 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 43 | Summarize what the candidate said to make sure that I got it right ? |
| 44 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 45 | In fact , I do n't think that I 've mentioned anything since March , but I am not sure that I did anything really productive during April . |
| 46 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 47 | Having sized up the competition and feeling confident that I had nothing to fear , I boldly took a step forward , grabbed a morsel of soap and proceeded to scrub away . |
| 48 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 49 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 50 | ‘ How can I believe you , when all that I thought I knew of you was false … ? ’ |
| 51 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | He sounded so sincere that I forgave him at once in my heart . |
| 54 | Then I went out and bought some anaesthetic spray and applied it , but the pain was so excruciating that I thought my foot would fall off . |
| 55 | Not only could I not do it but the effort was so excruciating that I opened my mouth to scream and could n't breathe enough for that either . |
| 56 | Her voice was very earnest , as though it was desperately important that I understood what she said . |
| 57 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 58 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 59 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 60 | Unlike the Minister , I am not sorry that I was not on the Committee ; I am pleased that I missed it . |