Example sentences of "[pers pn] that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 2 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 3 | Three hours earlier a lilting voice had told me that I had a nice big cock . |
| 4 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 5 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 6 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 7 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 8 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 9 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 10 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 11 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 12 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 13 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 15 | ‘ It was explained to me that I had a mild form which was affecting the part of the brain that triggers migraine , which is why I was having sickness attacks and blinding headaches behind the eyes . ’ |
| 16 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 17 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 18 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 19 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 20 | It worried me that I had reacted as I had . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 22 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 23 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 24 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 25 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 26 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 27 | You always taught me that I had so much to be thankful for , but there are still a lot of things that I wish had never happened . |
| 28 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |
| 29 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 30 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |