Example sentences of "[noun] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 4 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 5 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 6 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 7 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 8 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 9 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 10 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 11 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 12 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 13 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 14 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 15 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 16 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 17 | There are two other books that I co-authored which cover this aspect . |
| 18 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 21 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 22 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 23 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 24 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 25 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 26 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 27 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 28 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 29 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 30 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |