Example sentences of "[coord] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 2 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 3 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 4 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 5 | I know that he 's dead , that he lived somewhere in West Cornwall , that his pictures are making high prices and that I wish we could afford one . |
| 6 | If I had , if I had room I 'd have nothing , toaster and that I hate it all |
| 7 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 8 | No wages and that I mean it does vary from section |
| 9 | Now I know I went to a sp a specialist and that I mean it just keeps on coming back you know , maybe I 'll |
| 10 | Mind you , once you get to the know the typewriter and that I mean you know what you 're doing and you 've done your R S A one . |
| 11 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 12 | The first time we made love , I started out believing I hated you , but when we … by the end I knew I did n't really , and that I loved you . |
| 13 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 14 | And that I think they 're all tights there . |
| 15 | It 's not a lounge area and that I suppose it was behind the shop area . |
| 16 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 17 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 19 | But that I think they were |