Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ? |
| 2 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 3 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 4 | You may gather from my behaviour that I meant you , not Jones . |
| 5 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 6 | I feel now that I 've got an epitaph at the end of my life that I did something , I was n't a taker … |
| 7 | It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’ |
| 8 | I rang my friends at Radio Leicester and Peter Crankshaw , the producer of the ‘ phone-in programme Cross Talk said ‘ Yes ’ to my suggestion that I mention my exhibition . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |
| 10 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 11 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 12 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
| 13 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 14 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 15 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 16 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
| 17 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 18 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 19 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 20 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 21 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 22 | It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me ! |
| 23 | However , it is not about your father that I summoned you today , it is about you . ’ |
| 24 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 25 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 27 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |