Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 2 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 3 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 4 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 5 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 6 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 7 | I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting . |
| 8 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 9 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 10 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 11 | The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs . |
| 12 | Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed . |
| 13 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 14 | Although at this stage of my work I shared interests with him on matters concerning children 's learning and Art Education , I quickly discovered that I had so much more to learn from him about ideas , materials and their uses and in the need to create a working environment of a high order . |
| 15 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 16 | ‘ When I heard that I went straight into the toilet and threw up . |
| 17 | Just a simple explanation will do , such as ‘ I 've thought about this and decided that I 'd better shut up and do most of the listening ’ . |
| 18 | Ellen said in a tone which implied that I had entirely misunderstood the senator 's motives , which she would now have to explain to me by the application of sound feminist arguments . |
| 19 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 20 | It also meant that I became much more familiar with the area I lived in and the people around . ’ |
| 21 | This meant that I walked further than recorded . |
| 22 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 23 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 24 | By tea-time I felt that I conformed more to the recognized pattern of an escaper . |
| 25 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 26 | I knew that I wanted neither , but was n't sure that I had the strength or conviction to refuse them should they be prescribed . |
| 27 | I thought that I looked so smart in my white shoes , shorts , shirt and three cornered hat . |
| 28 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 29 | Well I 've got the little blue packet yeah and I 'm screaming yeah I thought that I won about a hundred pounds or something yeah . |
| 30 | Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite . |