Example sentences of "[pron] [that] i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ as if nothing that I 'd ever done mattered , only that I was here , part of the earth , at one with it , as they say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 5 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I must tell you that I quarrelled violently with your father once . |
| 7 | No I ca n't er , I ca n't tell you that I did definitely , although I , I 've heard a lot of them at times but er , I 'm not sure . |
| 8 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 9 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 10 | going into something that I 'd never done before . |
| 11 | One that I enjoyed very much recently was H. J. Massingham 's autobiography ‘ Remembrance ’ , which , if you have not read , I am sure you would like . |
| 12 | Many British companies , including the one that I visited yesterday , sell very satisfactorily to Japanese companies in this country and that provides a vast market for supplier companies . |
| 13 | No the one that I did really want |
| 14 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Lili with that determined faith in herself that I found so enviable . |
| 15 | ‘ I know this is going to sound a bit silly , but in a way it was because of her that I came here . ’ |
| 16 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 17 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |