Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 2 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 3 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 5 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 11 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 12 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 13 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 16 | I felt that I needed to have someone around me all the time , whereas the others did not , and I was scared . |
| 17 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 18 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 19 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 20 | that I wanted to do something about safety or first aid and that 's it . |