Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 2 | You 'd much prefer that I did n't . ’ |
| 3 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 4 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 5 | Gervase , you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence . |
| 6 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 7 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 8 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 9 | I only know that I did n't . " |
| 10 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 11 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I 'd better prove that I do n't always forget about normal times for refreshing the inner man , ’ he drawled , but there was such a twinkle in his eyes , so much charm in his manner , that Fabia felt quite overcome by it . |
| 13 | I had never heard the word and unwisely said that I did n't know what it meant . |
| 14 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 15 | Thank you very much , I can only say that I have always felt it a privilege to be part of N C V O. Er , I have enjoyed my time enormously and if I 've had any role that I feel that I 'm proud of , it 's constantly bringing members to mind . |
| 16 | ‘ I can only say that I do n't remember any of this , ’ I said carefully . |
| 17 | Chairman and managing director of John Wood Group PLC Ian Wood agreed with Mr Steadman : ‘ I am glad I did not have the difficult task of judging the competition and can only say that I look forward to adding another series of works to our existing collection at John Wood House . ’ |
| 18 | By that I do n't mean he could n't have been responsible for their deaths , I just mean that I do n't think he 's on speaking terms with his conscience . |
| 19 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 20 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 21 | ‘ Even my good friend Shallot could not swear that I did not slip out of my chamber to commit this dreadful act . ’ |
| 22 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 23 | I I I 've already said that I do n't accept that er the French are unlikely to ratify er I think rather the contrary but that remains finally for them er and not for me . |
| 24 | ‘ In any case , I 've already said that I do n't want to fight any more with anybody . |
| 25 | So for that reason I do not believe that I feeling strongly as I do should im impose my views on others . |
| 26 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 27 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 28 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 29 | Yes I 'm not I 'm not saying that I do n't think it 's a an important consideration . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |