Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
2 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
3 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
4 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
5 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
6 | Said not , not only that I said we do n't have anywhere to park her car that 's why I said I 'm after your car park . |
7 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
8 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
9 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
10 | When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you . |
11 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
12 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
13 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
14 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
15 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
16 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
17 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
18 | Just that I caught it as I moved my finger . |
19 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
20 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
21 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
22 | It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected . |
23 | It was n't until half an hour later that I realised I was on C1 . |
24 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
25 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
26 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
27 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
28 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
29 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
30 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |