Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
2 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |
3 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
4 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
5 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
6 | Nevertheless , although I knew that there would be no Castello di Blandings awaiting me — Eric had always gone to great lengths to tell me that his family was not at all grand or well-off-I said yes . |
7 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
8 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |
9 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
10 | I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it . |
11 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
12 | It was at this point — a year or so into our campaign — that I realized that my efforts were not always appreciated by the other members of the group . |
13 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
14 | But , just before the reader buries the portfolio matrix once and for all , he or she might remember that I said that my case would not be complete until the end of chapter 8 , where more organizational and behavioural matters will be considered . |
15 | Yes , and when the hon. Gentleman reads my remarks , he will see that I said that I am considering disapplying the 1976 |
16 | I , I did say to the County Planning Officer that I thought that whoever had wr written this er these pages have captured the very well er very si the spirit of that an and the er we seem to have a very successful meeting on that |
17 | I had survived , not that I thought that I would n't . |
18 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
19 | My Lords erm I would only hope that I would be able to do something to my Noble Friend in trying to persuade him that it is n't all that bad erm My Lords I do agree with him though when you I , I think that I 'd be first of all w were to tell him that er not that he would n't be surprised that I thought that his amendment was n't actually necessary , but I do understand his concern , I mean he tries to find his way through the legislation . |
20 | One of the reasons why I was in favour of televising the House and Committees was that I thought that it might be a good idea for the public to see Standing Committees , with Ministers doing their mail and others trying to hold up the business . |
21 | So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues . |
22 | But it does n't it does n't take from the point that I made that it is i i the allocation they 're seeking is aimed at a very specific sector of the employment base . |
23 | I replied with caution and a slightly playful evasion that I understood that he would decide that , to which he replied that naturally he would like to take into account any hopes of mine . |
24 | It is only recently that I discovered that we are all born potentially good , demanding love and wanting nothing more than to give it in return . |
25 | It was then that I discovered that they had been keeping our group under surveillance and noting down the registration numbers of cars parked outside the meeting place . |
26 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
27 | It was n't until years later that I discovered that there are no sins of the father , that it was all one great big con trick . |
28 | If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession . |
29 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
30 | Feeling like a pioneer I was also conscious of the responsibility that I felt that I had . |