Example sentences of "[vb past] i that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 2 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 3 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 4 | Semenov promised me that he would have a word at the highest level , with Yury Vladimirovich Andropov . |
| 5 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 6 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 7 | ‘ She promised me that she would come . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs Blackler of the agency advised me that you would be in touch . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
| 10 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 11 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 12 | And she believed me that it did n't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid , and that sh and she says what shall I do about them ? |
| 13 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 14 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 15 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 16 | ‘ You assured me that he had no amorous intentions . |
| 17 | Aycliffe himself assured me that he is convinced there was no complicity on your part . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Miss Marsden assured me that you would agree . ’ |
| 19 | I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it . |
| 20 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 21 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 22 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 23 | John assured me that it was easy and I watched , amazed , as his hands turned the pieces to assemble it again . |
| 24 | I specifically asked if this upgrade would be possible and they assured me that it would . |
| 25 | She instantly strode across the shop and took a book from among thousands and assured me that it contained all I would ever need to know about cooking for ever . |
| 26 | I now find that this computer is clearly inadequate for my needs and that despite the fact that Dixon 's staff assured me that it would support desktop publishing and graphics , I now discover that it is never going to produce the results I need . |
| 27 | I had done very little imaginative work and would not have regarded this as my greatest negotiating success , but it was certainly so regarded by Harold Wilson who assured me that my name would be kept out of the proceedings , since I had then , and retain , a keen dislike for gratuitous publicity . |
| 28 | Tony assured me that there was a supermarket in the village , which seemed unlikely in a place that had less than ten houses , but turned out to be almost true — — the garage sold bits and pieces . |
| 29 | When I protested , they assured me that there would be no question of hiding me from the crowd . |
| 30 | One of these promoters assured me that there were now more than thirty scientific surveys ( carried out by TM ) to ‘ prove ’ , among other things , that accident and crime statistics dropped in areas where one per cent ( or even the square root of one per cent ) of the population were TM followers . |