Example sentences of "[pron] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you … |
| 2 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 5 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 6 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |
| 7 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 8 | He maintained his interest until the end , bequeathing to Christ 's Hospital £20 ‘ which they owe me that I lent them ’ , with an additional £6 13s. 4d. , besides £20 each to St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's . |
| 9 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 10 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 11 | These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall . |
| 12 | I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ? |
| 13 | I felt like murmuring the verses about Judas going out and hanging himself , and that he should go and do likewise , but Benjamin looked so quietly pleased with himself that I bit my tongue . |
| 14 | I know as well as you that I commissioned it . |
| 15 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 16 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 17 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 18 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That was the way I tried to show you that I loved you , ’ Julius answered in a low voice . |
| 20 | Regardless of the circumstances , or how I felt , or how much I needed to tell you that I loved you ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I remember telling you that I wanted nothing more to do with you ! ’ she snapped . |
| 22 | And perhaps your arrogance tells you that I encouraged you — up to a point , that is — in the same way as I 'm supposed to have encouraged Rob . |
| 23 | ‘ There was everything between you … everything that I thought we had … in Seville … and here . |
| 24 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 25 | This was something that I felt I had to speak up about . ’ |
| 26 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 27 | I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying . |
| 28 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 29 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 30 | Right quite an awkward one that I gave you . |