Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 2 | I naïvely thought that we had something special going for us . |
| 3 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 4 | When I obtained the death certificate of Thomas Batty ( 1882 ) , I read that he had lived at Mastington ; I eventually discovered that this was a copyist 's error for Markington . |
| 5 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 6 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 7 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 8 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 9 | ‘ I rather thought that was it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I rather thought that was pretty sensational . |
| 11 | ‘ I rather thought that was the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 12 | Yet it was hard to imagine a burglar visiting the rue de Sèvres : I rather imagined that this would be where he lived . |
| 13 | ‘ I rather enjoyed that in a funny way , ’ said Helen . |
| 14 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 15 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 16 | I idly noted that a brass plate declared that this bit of garden furniture was sacred to someone 's memory . |
| 17 | I merely meant that I love you too much to refuse you anything — only I 'm probably an idiot to admit it ! ’ |
| 18 | ( I was not impressed by such remarks ; I merely deduced that he would feel most at his ease about me if I were absent , unfaithful or dead . ) |
| 19 | I merely stated that ‘ to my knowledge ’ there was no convincing evidence either way . |
| 20 | At first he was really quiet but I kinda changed that because I treated him like my brother by punching him ! ’ |
| 21 | Someone rightly said that language exists to prevent us communicating , and of no country is that more true than my own . |
| 22 | But I personally felt that that was a good tackle on Speedy , Ron how did you see it ? |
| 23 | Now I personally felt that it would be quite inhumane to deal with someone who was somewhere near the magic 60 cut-off , for reasons that it would be impossible to examine with any clarity the reasons for this change of heart , and the strong will that he had shown during his previous operational record . |
| 24 | I personally felt that the characters were very stereo-typed and extremely predictable . |
| 25 | I only prayed that he was n't at some place called Ypres where , the paper warned us , casualties were heavy . |
| 26 | If I had told him I wished he was dead he would have seen this as a palimpsest of desire , but I only wished that he was n't there . |
| 27 | ‘ But I only stuck that for a couple of weeks , ’ he says , ‘ for I was playing guitar at a party one night in Cleveland , Ohio , and he said there were easier ways of making money out there than working the building sites . |
| 28 | I only meant that you have Joy , the gardener . |
| 29 | ‘ I only meant that it would not be suitable to go on the road with it . |
| 30 | ‘ I only meant that the coincidence is amazing . ’ |