Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 2 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 3 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 4 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 5 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 6 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 7 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 8 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 9 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |