Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 4 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 5 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 6 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 7 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 8 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 9 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 10 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 11 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 12 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 13 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 14 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 15 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 16 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 17 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 18 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 19 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 20 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 21 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 22 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 23 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 24 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 25 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 26 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 27 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 28 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 29 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 30 | Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford . |