Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 2 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 4 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 5 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 6 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 7 | When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you . |
| 8 | I felt then that I understood her . |
| 9 | I knew then that I loved him and I would do anything for him , no matter what . |
| 10 | I knew then that I loved you , more than anything in the world , more than life itself ! ’ |
| 11 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 12 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |