Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 2 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 3 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 4 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 5 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 6 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 7 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 8 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 9 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 10 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 11 | I think about it a hell of a lot you know , not with morbid fascination but because everything that I went through gave me an inner strength and I am frightened to lose it . |
| 12 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 16 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 17 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 18 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 30 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |