Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 2 | Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation . |
| 3 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 4 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 5 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 6 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 7 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 8 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 9 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 10 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 11 | ‘ I admired Lewis and his friends immensely , ’ Wain reported years later in an autobiography ; but ‘ already it was clear that I did not share their basic attitudes , ’ which were Christian , conservative and anti-modern . |
| 12 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 13 | I 'd just like to make this perfectly clear that I did write a draft for work and leisure . |
| 14 | ‘ I was told he was interested so I wrote to him asking for advice on my career . |
| 15 | In the torrid heat of the afternoon the village seemed deserted so I hammered on an iron gate . |
| 16 | The room , and the view , and the two people , seemed so calm that I did not want to disturb them . |
| 17 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 18 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 19 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 21 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 22 | The long grass was so wet that I decided to admire the castle from afar . |
| 23 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 24 | The street ahead was clear so I slowed and risked a look in the mirror . |
| 25 | The reaction of spectators was less marked than I had expected . |
| 26 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 27 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 28 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 29 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 30 | That you know is very interesting that I arranged all the materials through that you know it 's scandalous that 's it 's carton fits . |