Example sentences of "that i had [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced .
2 I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like .
3 I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school .
4 Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the
5 I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything .
6 Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ .
7 to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it !
8 Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her .
9 Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’
10 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
11 I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before .
12 So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ?
13 I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day .
14 Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either .
15 There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller .
16 ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him .
17 That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers .
18 The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on .
19 Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before .
20 I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much .
21 When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva !
22 Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement .
23 However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents .
24 It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us .
25 I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish .
26 It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June .
27 But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already .
28 ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’
29 I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained .
30 On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there .
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