Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
2 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
3 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
4 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
5 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
6 | ‘ I know it 's too late now and that it — it does n't make any difference , ’ she said raggedly , ‘ but when I saw you again I knew that I loved you , too . |
7 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
8 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
9 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
10 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
11 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
12 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
13 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
14 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
15 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
16 | ‘ If I said that I trusted you , ’ she whispered , forcing the words to form , ‘ if I told you that , come what may , I trusted you , would you still be confused ? ’ |
17 | Having been diagnosed , I abandoned that I thought I knew , which was a series of stereotypes about cancer . |
18 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
19 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
20 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
21 | To balance that out they knew that I loved them . " |
22 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
23 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
24 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
25 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
26 | Er again after you do that very same thing erm you know jingle your change and one of them he said that I reckon you got three pound eighty . |