Example sentences of "[verb] that i was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 2 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
| 3 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 4 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 5 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 6 | Trippy was not really interested in my financial situation ; he was just checking that I was paying for dinner . |
| 7 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 8 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 9 | To my surprise , I found that I was running towards the battle . |
| 10 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 11 | I said the truth is , that he reported that I was sleeping at night . |
| 12 | Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence . |
| 13 | Nightmares and night-time anxiety , are a regular feature of Leonard 's work , though he did remark to us , ‘ I do n't think that I was scarred by anything . ’ |
| 14 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 15 | This is ironic , seeing that I was campaigning about making assumptions about gender through language . |
| 16 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 17 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 18 | Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats . |
| 19 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 20 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 22 | I 've always felt that I was raised in the land of melody but I certainly was n't raised in the land of rhythm so I 'm always attracted to good dance music . |
| 23 | Now , after attending the opening of ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die Russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ in Frankfurt-am-Main yesterday , at my own expense , I wish to state that I was dazzled by the beauty and breadth of the exhibition and that the pluses far outweigh the minuses . |
| 24 | I do feel that I was introduced into it perhaps gradually erm on on a on the retail side er but sales is gon na be my career with . |
| 25 | It did n't matter that I was born in Baldersdale , my father was n't . |
| 26 | Soon after , a message came that I was wanted in the cabin . |
| 27 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 28 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Mallon stated that I was embarked on sweeping the RUC very clean and inferred for that reason that some senior people within the force did not wish that approach to continue . |
| 30 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |