Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 6 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 7 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 8 | It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose . |
| 9 | Sorry , I did n't mean to pull back it 's just that I want to hear what they 're talking about . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not that I mean to make her sound like some latter-day Anne Frank , of course . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 16 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 17 | Not that I plan to give you time to forget . ’ |
| 18 | Not that I needed to coach her , she must have had plenty of practice . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And everywhere else now that I come to mention it . ’ |
| 22 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I knew then that I had to box it up . |
| 24 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 26 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |