Example sentences of "[vb past] that i did [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 began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
3 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
4 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
5 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
6 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
7 | And then , not very long after retirement , I realised that I did n't rally want excitement any more — though perhaps a little bit of the exotic would n't go amiss now and then ! |
8 | I think they noticed that I did not follow their example . |
9 | Perhaps Alec noticed that I did not ridicule him as the others did . |
10 | I replied that I did n't think I would be a very good secretary but that one day I would like to run my own gallery . |
11 | I figured that I did n't have much of a chance to be the best player in the US , the country being so big . |
12 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
13 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
14 | I decided that I did n't have to go out . |
15 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
16 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
17 | I was n't a bound apprentice , as such , I did n't have to er it meant that I did n't have to stay with them . |
18 | I did n't relish this : not least because it meant that I did n't break my silence until the cheese course . |
19 | I meant that I did n't know his name was Verlander . ’ |
20 | I found the format patronising and alienating , and felt that I did not belong . |
21 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
22 | It came to me as I listened that I did n't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment , that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through , because all I had been through was my being there . |
23 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
24 | He knew that I did not really like a quiet life . |
25 | There was nothing he said that I did not recognize as being the expression of my own heart . |
26 | I said that I did not like institutional care , whether private or public . |
27 | I said that I did n't care for it . |
28 | I just said that I did n't know . ’ |
29 | I had never heard the word and unwisely said that I did n't know what it meant . |
30 | ‘ Publicly I said that I did n't think it was possible , but that was mainly to take some pressure off me . |