Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And that 's the only illness I that I ever had . |
2 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
3 | She had hit a note of such deep truth in me that I just sat looking at her . |
4 | ‘ You 're supposed to roll your eyes and assure me that I just had the low-cal , spun-out-of-air version of — whatever all that incredible stuff was . ’ |
5 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
6 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
7 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |
8 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
9 | ‘ The Test match fulfils an ambition for me that I never thought would be possible in my time , ’ he said . |
10 | I have also of course been very excited by the new doors that have opened up for me that I never knew existed . |
11 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
12 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
13 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
14 | It is a source of some sadness to me that I now find myself on the other side of the fence from Samuel Brittan in the debate on managed and fixed currencies . |
15 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
16 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
17 | Well er , I put the suggestion to you that I just said . |
18 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
19 | ‘ Is n't it enough for you that I nearly died ? ’ |
20 | ‘ I am writing to tell you that I no longer believe in God or consider myself a Christian . ’ |
21 | I will begin by telling you that I now live on a farm close to a beautiful little town in Umbria , the region of St Francis . |
22 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
23 | It was fortunate for you that I never insisted on accompanying you . ’ |
24 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
25 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
26 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
27 | I 'm so used to him that I never notice it . |
28 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
29 | Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left . |
30 | ‘ Prince Philip was interested to her that I already held the bronze and silver awards and asked me whether I had enjoyed myself going for gold , ’ said Christine . |