Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 2 | The driver assumed that I had come to see the church at Eyam , with its special exhibition featuring the events of 1665 and 1666 , when the bubonic plague visited the village . |
| 3 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 4 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 5 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 6 | Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ? |
| 7 | For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio . |
| 8 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 9 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 10 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 11 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 12 | " Dr. Kerrison suggested that I call in Dr. Greene — he 's the local police surgeon — to confirm his preliminary findings . |
| 13 | My conscience shouted that I had to inform . |
| 14 | The only comment I wish to make at this stage is that the court recognised that I had no intention to act in defiance of an order of the court or to hold myself above the law . |
| 15 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 16 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 17 | ‘ I had to leave , ’ he said heavily , ‘ because my conscience dictated that I inform on the Nazis . ’ |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman said that I had said that we would keep internment on the statute book . |
| 19 | When a friend suggested that I take up racing , my initial reaction was that at 42 I was too old . |
| 20 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
| 21 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 22 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 23 | We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears ! |
| 24 | That morning Doreen 's absence meant that I had to make the coffee and take in the biscuits to Mr Hutton . |
| 25 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 26 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 27 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |
| 28 | A dietitian suggested that I had milk shakes with raw eggs to build me up , yet , the Bristol diet denied both ingredients . |
| 29 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 30 | Harvey insisted that I drink three gigantic martinis before he released the waiter . |