Example sentences of "[verb] that i [vb past] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 2 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 3 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 4 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 5 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 6 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 7 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 8 | I felt that I needed to have someone around me all the time , whereas the others did not , and I was scared . |
| 9 | No , I knew that I had seen someone , or something . |
| 10 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 11 | ‘ A young detective remembered that I 'd had something like that stolen , ’ he says . |
| 12 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |