Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 4 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 6 | I used to put on that I 'd accepted it , but I did n't really . |
| 7 | Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it . |
| 8 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 9 | It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 13 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 14 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 15 | Not that I plan to give you time to forget . ’ |
| 16 | Not that I needed to coach her , she must have had plenty of practice . |
| 17 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 18 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 19 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 20 | No , now that I 've seen it . |
| 21 | ‘ Now that I 've met her I — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Now that I 've met you again , ’ he said meaningly , ‘ I shall be coming down much more often . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to be from now on , ’ he said , ‘ now that I 've made you come . |
| 24 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 25 | ‘ When we got into the car I said , ‘ Thanks for coming to get me , ’ and he said , ‘ Now that I 've found you I 'm never going to let you go . ’ ’ |
| 26 | Do you think I will ever let you go , now that I 've claimed you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Now that I 've told you the truth , you do n't need to fear . |
| 28 | And now , Ian Wharton , now that you are no longer the subject of this cautionary tale , merely its object , now that you are just another unproductive atom staring out from the windows of a branded monad , now that I 've got you where I want you , let the wild rumpus begin . |
| 29 | Anyway — now that I 've got you at last … |
| 30 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |