Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ?
2 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
3 But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems .
4 You may gather from my behaviour that I meant you , not Jones .
5 I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict .
6 It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’
7 ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’
8 I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now .
9 Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell .
10 I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance .
11 I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape .
12 She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside .
13 A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true .
14 One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour .
15 It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’
16 However , it is not about your father that I summoned you today , it is about you . ’
17 And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had
18 And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions .
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