Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 2 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 3 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 4 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 5 | He rang off and I realised that I ought to leave shortly since Jack was due to tee off at midday . |
| 6 | But I was considered ‘ sharp ’ and they also discovered that I could run quite fast . |
| 7 | And when I painted this portrait , I felt that I 'd put too much of myself into it . |
| 8 | My memories of that event are hazy but I felt that I should have somehow or other done something , crawled about the burning ground with my leg hanging off singing ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and waving a tattered Union Jack over the hedge in defiance . |
| 9 | I knew that I could wait forever , |
| 10 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 11 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 12 | He also explained that I must talk freely and not be intimidated by the recording machine . |