Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 3 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 4 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 5 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 6 | He thinks it 's fun to hang onto the back of my coat with a grip of iron , so that I have to take my coat off and pry him loose . |
| 7 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 8 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 9 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 10 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 12 | I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really . |
| 13 | Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it . |
| 14 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 15 | It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose . |
| 16 | Sorry , I did n't mean to pull back it 's just that I want to hear what they 're talking about . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 19 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 20 | Not that I 've seen anyone . |
| 21 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
| 22 | Not that I 've got anything against them personally . |
| 23 | Not that I 've got anything against Sue 's family , mind . |
| 24 | Not that I 've got anything against babies . |
| 25 | Not that I 've got anything at all against them getting out and about a bit now , ’ he added hurriedly , not wanting another Grimma on his hands . |
| 26 | Not that I mean to make her sound like some latter-day Anne Frank , of course . ’ |
| 27 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not that I mind wasting my time , it 's just that I like to know that I 'm wasting my time . ’ |
| 29 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
| 30 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |