Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] i " in BNC.

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1 Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual .
2 I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it .
3 I 've always wished that I never came back to this country .
4 ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother .
5 But when she writes or herself , her tone is almost girlish : ‘ The romantic world seems to have supposed that I kissed the sculptor last week .
6 ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible .
7 I have stressed that I am taking a particular linguistic phenomenon , deixis , and examining its occurrences and behaviour in a specific genre .
8 During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course .
9 ‘ I keep being reminded that I am only 18 , but I am eager and enthusiastic to play .
10 ‘ You are reminded that I have the backing of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council .
11 It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’
12 ‘ I do n't like being reminded that I have not one drop of blood to link me with my family . ’
13 I did a diploma in nursing to add to my basic nursing qualification and it was pretty much expected that I 'd be moving up into line management ( overseeing several wards ) .
14 I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her .
15 He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing .
16 I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary !
17 Have you forgotten that I was once their mother 's maid ? ’
18 I do n't that I had n't forgotten that I gave a
19 I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission .
20 ‘ Have you forgotten that I know you were involved with him six years ago ?
21 Have you forgotten that I became President through People Power ?
22 I have never forgotten that I came home to my wife and said : ‘ There 's a young man working with us and I 'm sure he is going to be a big star . ’
23 I trust you have not forgotten that I was [ in Isse , Destouches 's 1697 pastorale héroïque ] your conducteur at Fontainebleau , when the king heard it .
24 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
25 But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion .
26 I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry .
27 I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world .
28 Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself .
29 It was hard to explain to a youngster who was bright but not particularly well educated that I could n't make a nerve work .
30 ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character .
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