Example sentences of "me that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
| 3 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 4 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 5 | Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge . |
| 6 | Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde . |
| 7 | It appears to me that I have collected his and everyone else 's quota of the annoying little bastards , so I return to my trench , wrap myself up , and sleep fitfully until I am awakened to take my turn on guard . |
| 8 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 9 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
| 10 | I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear . |
| 11 | The first evidence of Cat 's ‘ I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear . |
| 12 | In the bustle of adapting to the new life of an MP at Westminster , it had occurred to me that I should look further at pensions . |
| 13 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 14 | ( Yet some instinct told me that I must be careful to give her no cause for having a grievance . |
| 15 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 16 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 17 | Now , was it Margery Fish or Vita Sackville-West whose rhapsodies persuaded me that I must have this lime-green foamy-flowered plant with the scalloped leaves edged with silver hairs , in which captured raindrops gleamed like opals , at absolutely any price ? |
| 18 | Three hours earlier a lilting voice had told me that I had a nice big cock . |
| 19 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 20 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 21 | ‘ At the moment I am just flowing with the tide , following whatever is on offer to me that I like . |
| 22 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
| 23 | I know beyond question that I am Oedipus and he is I. I should make it clear that I hold no truck with the theory of reincarnation ; it is just as clear to me that I am Marie Romanov , whose life overlapped with mine . |
| 24 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 25 | ‘ I seldom come out of my pulpit ’ , said Baxter , ‘ but my conscience smiteth me that I have been no more serious and fervent … |
| 26 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 27 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 28 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 29 | It is certainly no sadness for me that I live in a house that is open to the public . |
| 30 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |