Example sentences of "[verb] that i [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 5 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 6 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 17 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 18 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 19 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 20 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 21 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 22 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 23 | And after we had met again , he observed that I had achieved what he called ‘ poise ’ . |
| 24 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 25 | Outwardly it must have seemed that I had overcome my emotional difficulties and , apart from the mysterious phenomenon of my continuing thinness , had become a bright , helpful , well-adjusted member of the school . |
| 26 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 27 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
| 28 | It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud . |
| 29 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 30 | 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 . |