Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 3 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 4 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 5 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 6 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 7 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 8 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 9 | You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her |
| 10 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’ |
| 12 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 13 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 14 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |