Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 2 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 3 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 4 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 5 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 6 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 7 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 8 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
| 9 | I told her that I loved her . ’ |
| 10 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 11 | ‘ It was only when the doorbell rang and two more couples joined us that I realised what he had in mind . ’ |
| 12 | I also tolled him that I thort someone getting there bottom caut in a bacon slicer might be qite funy , in fakt . |
| 13 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 14 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |