Example sentences of "[verb] that i [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
2 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
3 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
4 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
5 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
6 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
7 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
8 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
9 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
10 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
11 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
12 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
13 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
14 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
15 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
16 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
17 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
18 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
19 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
20 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
21 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
22 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
23 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
24 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
25 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
26 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
27 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
28 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
29 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
30 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |