Example sentences of "[verb] that i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know that I was to be there and came forward saying : ‘ My dear Elizabeth , what a very nice surprise . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 3 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 4 | He persuaded them that I was not employed by the Government , explaining that I was under the Emperor 5 personal protection , which accounted for my escort of soldiers . |
| 5 | I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere . |
| 6 | ‘ I would think that whoever took those things is very worried indeed now to find that I was with Harry and that he is alive . |
| 7 | Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the |
| 8 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 9 | When I pushed open a door leading to a better-lit corridor , I realized that I was on an upper level of the main administrative building of the spaceport . |
| 10 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 11 | I do n't think that I was in a minority of one in finding this performance , particularly the absolutely shattering playing of the Finale , incredibly moving — the thunderous howl of approval that greeted the final chord bears that out . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised that I was in a good position , I had a little bit of work , which fitted in with my family life . |
| 13 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |
| 14 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 15 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 16 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 17 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 18 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 19 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 20 | I already had reason to suspect that I was by no means flavour-of-the-month at the Oxford International Language College . |
| 21 | He should understand that I was in favour of a social charter in Europe before there was any such thing as the European Community . |
| 22 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 23 | I did n't lose consciousness , but pretty soon it dawned that I was in a lot of pain . ’ |
| 24 | Well that would imply that I was in a pretty bad way and normally would n't do |
| 25 | I meant that I was under the impression the Spaniards had strong beliefs about virginal brides and the sanctity of marriage and children and a strong family unit . ’ |
| 26 | Depressingly , this meant that I was within sight , sound and smell of their superior rations , bacon-burgers , goulash , and bolognese . |
| 27 | Does n't that mean that I was at least a little sober ? |
| 28 | When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk . |
| 29 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 30 | The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go . |