Example sentences of "[verb] that i [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | It meant that I had to renew my Jamaican passport . |
| 8 | I felt that I needed to have someone around me all the time , whereas the others did not , and I was scared . |
| 9 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 10 | At last the rain held off and although the wind was a little strong I knew that I had to fly her . |
| 11 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’ |
| 14 | She said that I had to tell my parents . |
| 15 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 16 | I explained that I wanted to see her father on a matter of business , but that his office had been unable to tell me where he was , and that I could get no reply by telephoning his home . |