Example sentences of "[vb past] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 2 | I mentioned that I missed my son and how I could n't see him . |
| 3 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 4 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 5 | When Hellen was transferred to Toronto to continue her documentary film-making career , I found that I missed her cheery presence more than I had expected , despite many activities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 8 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 9 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 10 | I realised that I needed something that was a bit more active and fairly creative , preferably something that included both sexes . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised that I needed someone strong who was next to me and she is it , ’ says Sacha . |
| 12 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 13 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 14 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 15 | Returning to Reine that afternoon , I caught sight of Jean-Claude slipping into the dark urban cleft that was the rue de Sèvres , and I noticed that I felt nothing , neither curi-osity nor apprehension . |
| 16 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 19 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 20 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 21 | I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought . |
| 22 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm afraid that my moment away from the phone also meant that I missed my opportunity to query whether I am really the right person for the job . |
| 24 | However a 55 minute delivery when I was already on the way home on a Wednesday afternoon , meant that I missed it . |
| 25 | I merely meant that I love you too much to refuse you anything — only I 'm probably an idiot to admit it ! ’ |
| 26 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 27 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 30 | Now I felt that I wanted nothing else in the world but to be allowed to read this dismal grammar all winter . |