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 ? ’
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