Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 35-year-old , who has collected 13 major trophies with the Anfield club , said : ‘ I have slowly realised that I am not in Liverpool 's plans for the future . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 3 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 4 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 5 | I did a diploma in nursing to add to my basic nursing qualification and it was pretty much expected that I 'd be moving up into line management ( overseeing several wards ) . |
| 6 | All the reports I had done to do with my mental state have all said that I 'm not crazy , and yet I was diagnosed as a psychopath and bunged in Broadmoor . |
| 7 | This , I thought , rather an excessively sympathetic comment — I had only said that I was very sorry that Roger [ Hinks ] had been transferred . |
| 8 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 9 | ‘ But you were looking so absorbed that I guessed you were admiring that wonderful bureau . ’ |
| 10 | Gervase , you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence . |
| 11 | They have apparently agreed that I 'm simple-minded . |
| 12 | I was so cowed that I did n't even say who I was ; I pretended to be her . |
| 13 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
| 14 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 15 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
| 16 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 17 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 18 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 19 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | I stood there , enjoying these strange new thoughts and passions and suddenly realized that I was shorter . |
| 21 | I was so aggravated that I was prepared to believe Brenda on the switchboard was lying on his behalf , pretending there was no reply . |
| 22 | I learned later that , in the presence of a superior officer , he had wrongly suggested that I might be returned to the hotel after treatment . |
| 23 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 24 | An imaginary example can be so described that I am willing to say that the action it recounts is good . |
| 25 | My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade . |
| 26 | I trust you have not forgotten that I was [ in Isse , Destouches 's 1697 pastorale héroïque ] your conducteur at Fontainebleau , when the king heard it . |
| 27 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 28 | I have just said that I think that ’ jerk ’ is not among the list of unparliamentary expressions but I asked the Leader of the Opposition to refine it . |
| 29 | ‘ That new fuel blend of yours has just ensured that I 've had the most embarrassing drive of my life ! |
| 30 | I have already decided that I will fish the water at night , at least to begin with , and this will allow me to fish the three best periods : dusk , darkness and dawn . |