Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 5 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 6 | He thinks it 's fun to hang onto the back of my coat with a grip of iron , so that I have to take my coat off and pry him loose . |
| 7 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 8 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 9 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 10 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 12 | Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it . |
| 13 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 14 | It 's just that I want to get it typed I s'pose . |
| 15 | Sorry , I did n't mean to pull back it 's just that I want to hear what they 're talking about . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 18 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 19 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming . |
| 22 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No , now that I 've seen it . |
| 26 | ‘ So , now that I 've explained everything , do you think you 'll marry me ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Now that I 've met her I — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Now that I 've met you again , ’ he said meaningly , ‘ I shall be coming down much more often . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going to be from now on , ’ he said , ‘ now that I 've made you come . |
| 30 | 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 . |