Example sentences of "that i [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So tail-waggingly , bone-snafflingly puppyish that I nearly tickled him under the ears . |
| 2 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 3 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 4 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 5 | I am sorry to say that I never heard her at her best because of circumstances . |
| 6 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 7 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 8 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 9 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 10 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 11 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |