Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 5 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 6 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
| 7 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 8 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 9 | I did n't tell your mum that I 'd got it on you see she said now all that I 've been saying ! |
| 10 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 11 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 12 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
| 13 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 15 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 16 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 17 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 18 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 19 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 20 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
| 23 | When I was researching this subject , the opening exchange of conversations was so invariable that I learnt to recite it at once to save time . |
| 24 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 25 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 26 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |