Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [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 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 .
9 I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like .
10 I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school .
11 Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the
12 I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 !
15 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ?
20 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 .
21 Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either .
22 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 .
23 ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him .
24 That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers .
25 The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on .
26 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 .
27 I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much .
28 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 !
29 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 .
30 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 .
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