Example sentences of "[conj] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 2 | Or that I 've got a vagina . |
| 3 | Or that I 've been involved in a murder . |
| 4 | Not that he ever mentions it , or that I 've ever asked him , but he 's the type to consider it a sacred duty to have everything in order for every emergency . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 7 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 8 | no confidence who cares , you know , whether I pass or that I mean |
| 9 | Or that I killed and mutilated a half-mad witch ? ’ |
| 10 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 11 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 12 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 13 | It was n't that my shoulders are broader than anyone else 's or that I have the most understanding nature in the world . |
| 14 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 15 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 16 | And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work . |
| 17 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 18 | Nor that I will to borrow his messenger without his knowledge . |
| 19 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 20 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Of course … except that I had n't noticed this . |
| 23 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 24 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 25 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 26 | ‘ Except that I had no idea what I was being punished for . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 28 | I would be tempted to suggest that the Thames Valley CID read too many detective stories , except that I doubt whether they read at all . |
| 29 | This is as faithful a reproduction as I have seen , except that I remember the ghosts being eatable for a lot longer than they are here . |
| 30 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |