Example sentences of "[conj] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 2 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 3 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 4 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 6 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 7 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 8 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 9 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 10 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 11 | The first time we made love , I started out believing I hated you , but when we … by the end I knew I did n't really , and that I loved you . |
| 12 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 13 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |