Example sentences of "[verb] that i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 3 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 12 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 15 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 16 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 17 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 18 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 19 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 20 | I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 21 | I put up with with it then , knowing that I had chosen it . |
| 22 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 23 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 24 | But this time the girl was dead , and I knew that I had killed her . ’ |
| 25 | At last the rain held off and although the wind was a little strong I knew that I had to fly her . |
| 26 | It was a moment when a stray thread of sledge-hammer sanity isolated itself and hit me , and I , in that scarce moment , knew that I had to protect you — from me ! ’ |
| 27 | and thought that I 'd bought it . |
| 28 | I listened to his speech and thought that I had heard it before . |
| 29 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 30 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |