Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 5 | Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it . |
| 6 | So I lay naked in the rinsed airlessness of the room , waiting for She-She 's return , and wishing pretty earnestly that I had taken my chances with Moby . |
| 7 | Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming . |
| 8 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 9 | Now that I 've seen his photograph and read his prose style , I ca n't imagine how he and Serafin ever contrived to live together . |
| 10 | No , now that I 've seen it . |
| 11 | ‘ So , now that I 've explained everything , do you think you 'll marry me ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Now that I 've met her I — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Now that I 've met you again , ’ he said meaningly , ‘ I shall be coming down much more often . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to be from now on , ’ he said , ‘ now that I 've made you come . |
| 15 | Now that I 've heard what can really be done with this 1915 score , I greatly prefer the flavour of the Teatre Lliure 's tough and stringy version to the Carmé Ensemble 's plump , battery-fed one . |
| 16 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 17 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
| 18 | ‘ When we got into the car I said , ‘ Thanks for coming to get me , ’ and he said , ‘ Now that I 've found you I 'm never going to let you go . ’ ’ |
| 19 | Do you think I will ever let you go , now that I 've claimed you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Now that I 've told you the truth , you do n't need to fear . |
| 21 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 22 | And now , Ian Wharton , now that you are no longer the subject of this cautionary tale , merely its object , now that you are just another unproductive atom staring out from the windows of a branded monad , now that I 've got you where I want you , let the wild rumpus begin . |
| 23 | Anyway — now that I 've got you at last … |
| 24 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 25 | Now that I 've finished my English and do n't have a tutor I 'll be able to get more . |
| 26 | " Now that I 've recovered we must think of your reputation , Mrs Lang . " |
| 27 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 28 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 29 | I always wish now that I 'd met him . |
| 30 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |