Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [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 ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade .
9 I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge .
10 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 .
11 I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like .
12 I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
15 Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ?
16 Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could !
17 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 .
18 No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party .
19 The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this .
20 I felt that I had never seen anyone so old .
21 The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : …
22 I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
23 I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well .
24 Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish .
25 ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’
26 You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife .
27 I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first .
28 ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them .
29 ‘ If you mean that I worked hard to make my own money , then yes , I did .
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