Example sentences of "[conj] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I warned her that Drennan was trying to bribe your father with land and that I thought your father would accept the bribe ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 17 | 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 . |