Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 2 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 3 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
| 5 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
| 6 | Said not , not only that I said we do n't have anywhere to park her car that 's why I said I 'm after your car park . |
| 7 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
| 8 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
| 9 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 10 | When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 12 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 13 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
| 14 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 15 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 17 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 18 | Just that I caught it as I moved my finger . |
| 19 | Not that I blamed her . |
| 20 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 21 | Parting you from Jones that time does n't seem to have curtailed your ongoing little adventure — not that I thought it would . ’ |
| 22 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 24 | Not that I fancied him before but . |
| 25 | Not that I minded her coming in every day , just did n't , not always that time . |
| 26 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 28 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 29 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 30 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |