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 . |