Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 2 | ‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’ |
| 3 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 4 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 5 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 6 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 7 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 8 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid that my moment away from the phone also meant that I missed my opportunity to query whether I am really the right person for the job . |
| 10 | She said huskily , ‘ Surely you ca n't really think that I had anything to do with this ? ’ |
| 11 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 12 | I do not now deny that I hoped he would lead us to him . |
| 13 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 14 | I could n't even pretend that I wanted them ! |
| 15 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 16 | I said well frankly Cheryl with her record I 'm not in I said she takes off when she pleases , she comes down when she wants something I said she doing me some good at christmas I said I do I quite understand that I said I do understand and I 'm I 've nothing nothing to do with me that 's entirely up to you and she said and you would n't tell me what to do you wo n't change our minds , I said no I 'm not trying to change your minds but you asked me what I would do I said and I think there and now she 's She said and I do n't care what you done , I 'll do I 'll do , I said she 's got hundreds of where they smash the windows and break into so regularly . |
| 17 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |