Example sentences of "[conj] that i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he ever mentions it , or that I 've ever asked him , but he 's the type to consider it a sacred duty to have everything in order for every emergency . ’ |
| 2 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 3 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 4 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 5 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 6 | Of course … except that I had n't noticed this . |
| 7 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 8 | ‘ I left my home — I ruined my life , except that I did not know then that I was doing so ! — only because my par … |
| 9 | I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me . |
| 10 | I really must design a multi-signal-scrambling-decoder for trapping these essential little fly buggers — except that I do n't have the technical knowledge and I 'd certainly burst at least one ear drum trying to fit it in ! |
| 11 | ‘ Except that I do n't get to see much of her . ’ |
| 12 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 13 | But other than that I do n't really give a shit . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ More than that I do n't have to tell you . |
| 15 | But other than that I do n't think , women did n't do much I mean even in shops , the men were the shop assistants nearly always . |
| 16 | circulate paper from erm a new motion in terms of the environment motions erm defers more than that I do n't really say |
| 17 | Other than that I do n't usually break it . |
| 18 | it would n't be any thicker than that I do n't suppose , but I mean I would n't know |
| 19 | I wanted to light a cigarette , but more than that I wanted not to distract him ; his reaching back . |
| 20 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 21 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 22 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 23 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 24 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 25 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 26 | The moment was complete when I realised that the action had also cured my arthritis and that I had n't needed the strategically-placed piece of double-sided sticky tape . |
| 27 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 28 | The nagging doubt remains , however , that the thing might have looked blue to me , and that I had simply not realised that it was to the thing 's colour that I was expected to respond . |
| 29 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 30 | And I should imagine that the light paper 's the backing paper and that I 've already glued my work on the paper and my my picture is already glued just there . |