Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 33 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 34 | Let me tell the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) that I heard what he said about this matter on Thursday , and I agree with him . |
| 35 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 36 | Er I just ringing through to say that I heard your er broadcast last week in respect of Carnfield Hall and I went on Saturday afternoon a gentleman named Hugh rang you up . |
| 37 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 39 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 40 | It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard . |
| 41 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 42 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 45 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 46 | It was in the winter of 1987–88 that I announced I was going to race mostly in Britain in Olympic year . |
| 47 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |
| 48 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Blair worked on the islands for a number of years and I confess that I envied him . |
| 52 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 53 | And she thought , a little aggrieved : I do think Clelia might have told me , how could she assume that I knew her mother 's maiden name ? |
| 54 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 55 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 56 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 57 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 60 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |