Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 2 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 3 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 4 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 5 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 6 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 7 | However a 55 minute delivery when I was already on the way home on a Wednesday afternoon , meant that I missed it . |
| 8 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 9 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 10 | To balance that out they knew that I loved them . " |
| 11 | ‘ I know it 's too late now and that it — it does n't make any difference , ’ she said raggedly , ‘ but when I saw you again I knew that I loved you , too . |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 14 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 15 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 16 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 17 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 18 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 19 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 20 | I said that I thought I could just about get my act together sufficiently to come . |
| 21 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 22 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 23 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |
| 24 | ‘ If I said that I trusted you , ’ she whispered , forcing the words to form , ‘ if I told you that , come what may , I trusted you , would you still be confused ? ’ |
| 25 | When I kissed you that first night , and accepted that I desired you , I knew then that with the situation so volatile I should get us both out of there and back to Mariánské Láznë . ’ |
| 26 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 27 | Having been diagnosed , I abandoned that I thought I knew , which was a series of stereotypes about cancer . |