Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] that i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was .
2 Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ?
3 " Dr. Kerrison suggested that I call in Dr. Greene — he 's the local police surgeon — to confirm his preliminary findings .
4 Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . "
5 We go two lads there with hardly any work on me and Jan are alright now we got a third person Graham has n't got much on and er Ri Richard 's scraping round for work , so of course my ears pricked up like so I thought , Mike sensed that I 'd looked up and he looked at me and er so I just looked back he said God , God had never invented a woman with small ears !
6 Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’
7 Harvey insisted that I drink three gigantic martinis before he released the waiter .
8 That we could not condone , and Gill Davies insisted that I go over there [ to the interviews ] and make the point , which I did very forcibly I thought .
9 I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it .
10 Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed .
11 I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant .
12 Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did .
13 And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph .
14 Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite .
15 It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did .
16 Dr Russell insisted that I went with the convalescent men and we were lucky to pick up one of the last trains to go northwards .
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