Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 2 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 3 | People would obviously conclude that I had died a coward . |
| 4 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 5 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 6 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
| 7 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 8 | ‘ I soon realised that I had a very limited view of what venture capital was all about , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 10 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
| 11 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 12 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 13 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 14 | I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff . |
| 15 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 16 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 17 | I said I understood this , but did not add that I had been told of the beauty of these women and their attention to make-up , of their fine skin and care for the traditional in their clothes and way of life . |
| 18 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 19 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 20 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 21 | I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 22 | Let's just say that I had a lot of time to learn things — about survival in terrible times , and camouflage , and new ways of living . |
| 23 | Can I just say that I had figured four hundred million it is in fact four fifty . |
| 24 | Can I just say that I had figured four hundred million , it is in fact four fifty . |
| 25 | I had never before consciously thought about my kidney — or rather my kidneys — hardly realising that I had any . |
| 26 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 28 | If proof were ever needed that I had a gift for spotting talent then my signing of Royston Marley was it . |
| 29 | Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order . |
| 30 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |