Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 2 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 3 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 13 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 14 | The thing that upsets me when I see all these pregnant people walking around is that I did n't do it . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage . |
| 16 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |
| 17 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 18 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That song had so many lyrics and different types of music in there , that I did n't think it 'd go the distance . |
| 20 | I was very open-minded towards drugs then and I would try anything that was going provided that I did n't think it was too dangerous … and I did like to analyse the thing , the substances , through literature . |
| 21 | ‘ Publicly I said that I did n't think it was possible , but that was mainly to take some pressure off me . |
| 22 | I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner . |
| 23 | It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week . |
| 24 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 25 | It is not a sign of high status in a man 's world to be in charge of women only , but I have to confess that I did n't find it unpleasant . |
| 26 | No one seems to worry about earthquakes , however : there was a slight tremor at about 8.30 a.m. one day last week , but it was so slight that I did n't notice it , although did . |
| 27 | Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying . |
| 28 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 29 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 30 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |