Example sentences of "that i [verb] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 2 | Not that I 've ever done a job like this before , should be great fun . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't say , ’ said Thorfinn , ‘ that I 've ever bedded a ship , but I 'll take your word for it . |
| 4 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 5 | It 's just that I 've never met a policeman before . ’ |
| 6 | Apart from that I 've never had a day 's illness in my life ; never been in bed a whole day . |
| 7 | ‘ I must admit , though , that I 've never had a lady go to sleep on me before . ’ |
| 8 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 9 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 10 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 11 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 12 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 13 | I was astonished to read Ben Moon saying in the July issue of Climber that I had never climbed an 8c . |
| 14 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 15 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 16 | In fact there has been so much to amuse that I have scarcely read a book and have written but little . |
| 17 | If you know that I have just bought an angora woollie at half price in a sale , it is unlikely that it came from Boots the chemist . |
| 18 | You may be sure that I have now placed a regular order with CRA St Albans , my local stockist , so that I am not disappointed in the future . |
| 19 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 20 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |