Example sentences of "[pron] that i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 5 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 8 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 14 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | I told myself that I had up to two hundred and no more . |