Example sentences of "and [verb] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
2 | He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on . |
3 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
4 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
5 | When I kissed you that first night , and accepted that I desired you , I knew then that with the situation so volatile I should get us both out of there and back to Mariánské Láznë . ’ |
6 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
7 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |