Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 2 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 3 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 4 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 5 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 6 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 9 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 10 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 18 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 24 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 25 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 30 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |