Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 3 | I merely meant that I love you too much to refuse you anything — only I 'm probably an idiot to admit it ! ’ |
| 4 | When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nothing could have been contrived to accord less well with his lovat green country suit and hat but , he explained , ‘ She simply insisted that I wear it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |