Example sentences of "[vb past] that i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 2 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 3 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 4 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 5 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing happened that I know of . |
| 7 | It happened that I called at Beatrice 's house the last time Aunt Nessy visited there — the time before she was banished . |
| 8 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 9 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 10 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 11 | ‘ He , too , saw through me ; I mean he clearly perceived that I saw through him … |
| 12 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |
| 13 | This meant that I got into the Library . |
| 14 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 15 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 16 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 17 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 18 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 19 | All night ticket collectors came with torches , and they were followed by police who demanded that I put on proper trousers . |
| 20 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 21 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 23 | Er well whe er when I first went to I 'd already lost two children and er the girls knew that I worked with the t last two children . |
| 24 | That we could not condone , and Gill Davies insisted that I go over there [ to the interviews ] and make the point , which I did very forcibly I thought . |
| 25 | Dr Russell insisted that I went with the convalescent men and we were lucky to pick up one of the last trains to go northwards . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , he then insisted that I went with him to a trade show in San Francisco . |
| 27 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 28 | I recovered quickly , I 'm glad to say , but I could n't leave because they insisted that I stayed to lunch . |
| 29 | He would plant her downstage and get her to start playing ’ I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls , ’ and then sabotage her work from the back wall . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to leave , ’ he said heavily , ‘ because my conscience dictated that I inform on the Nazis . ’ |