Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had heard that the paths ahead were precarious and exposed , but my heart sank when I noticed that even the horses were being blindfolded . |
| 2 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 3 | ‘ Well ’ — he turned and looked towards the window — ‘ I noticed as I passed that you had a box of Havana cigars , the … the Excepcionales . |
| 4 | I forgot that I discovered that all our letters now are apt to be a day late . |
| 5 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 6 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 7 | He looked up at me after I finished and I saw that whipped dog look . |
| 8 | I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it . |
| 9 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 10 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 11 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 12 | I was afraid when I first went because I thought that people who go to prison , they 're bad . |
| 13 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 14 | Then the prisoner spoke and I understood that he wanted my sword . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister also asked whether I thought that Ministers brought matters unnecessarily to the Cabinet . |
| 16 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 17 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 18 | I said that I accepted that maybe he hated me and that he wanted nothing to do with me . |
| 19 | No , I mean , I wrote down here what tone of voice — English obsession with newspaper class , which is what I was talking about format which you covered , and I said that I felt that in the States that seems to an outsider only the New York Times , but even that sort of , as you say , covers a whole range of non-quality , from a British point of view non-quality , press . |
| 20 | Chairman and I , I still stick to wh what I said that I think that we ought to reverse and , and p put two to number one erm er and with the addition of those words , because |
| 21 | Michael Gough , my editor , works for me in New York and he said he went to get a key to get back in after they had closed and they said why and he said because I think that I will be back later than your gate is locked . |
| 22 | I could n't accept it ; my resolve to carry on snapped and I said that if they were going to do this , then 1 , too , would not eat . |