Example sentences of "[conj] that i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 2 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |
| 3 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 5 | No erm it 's , it 's more recent than that I think in nineteen fifty the election was on a Tuesday . |
| 6 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 7 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy . |
| 9 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 10 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 11 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 12 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 13 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |
| 14 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 15 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
| 16 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 17 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
| 18 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
| 19 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 20 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |