Example sentences of "[conj] [that] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Or that I 've got a vagina .
2 I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’
3 He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad .
4 ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’
5 And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work .
6 Nor that I will to borrow his messenger without his knowledge .
7 Nor that I wished to give myself in life
8 Except that I had to live with the aftermath .
9 He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below .
10 Or ‘ I had a binge last night and I 've no excuse , except that I 've got a terrible hangover this morning and I 'll try again tomorrow . ’
11 But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’
12 Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me .
13 Except that I seem to remember you telling me that you and Arnie do n't like to live in each other 's pockets .
14 Except that I have lost one of my shoes .
15 There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end .
16 You are hurt , I know , and unable to believe in any man 's decency , but try to believe that whatever happened to you I still love you ; you have not changed for me , it makes no difference , no difference whatsoever — except that I want to kill the man who hurt you . ’
17 " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said .
18 I think regarding the number of people who are in prison , whether on remand or otherwise , erm , reminds me of something that that I keep noticing , either hear it on the radio or in the paper .
19 Well , did you did they tell you a little more than that I mean did they tell you that er Mr played cricket with him or something like that or or what ?
20 Other than that I wish to make no claims upon you . ’
21 Other than that I 've got nothing to do .
22 Other than that I do disagree with what Juliette was saying .
23 The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater .
24 Other than that I want to make just three comments on three important issues which have been raised .
25 And a lot of the book is concerned with developing this theme , and that I thought came out quite well in the classes , so I wo n't bother to repeat all that , because I thought we did that fairly thoroughly in , in the class .
26 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
27 I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely !
28 As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’
29 I told her who I was , and that I had met her father .
30 That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory .
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