Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting . |
| 2 | It was only when I started to receive my magazine that I realised just how courageous the lifeboat crews are . |
| 3 | Most reviewers were distracted by the ‘ satires ’ of the title , written earlier and in a very different mood , which Hardy came to regret as injuring ‘ the others that I cared most about ’ . |
| 4 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 5 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 6 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 7 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 8 | ‘ How — er — how did you know that I lived here ? ’ she muttered as he led her inside the lift , reaching across to push the correct floor button . |
| 9 | And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that . |
| 10 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 11 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 12 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 13 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 14 | Within the increased roads programme that I announced today — a road programme which will have increased by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 16 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 17 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 18 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 19 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 20 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 21 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 22 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 23 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 24 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 25 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 27 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 28 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 29 | Is this the chicken that I saw earlier transformed into little breaded |
| 30 | Between the wars , and you did n't know this that erm loads of the history that I read here in Britain very different from the history |