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 | And er coming here I found that I had n't er put any of my vases in , so I had to go back again . |
| 3 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 5 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 6 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 10 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 11 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 12 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 13 | having problems today cos she 's got the two girls there from school and they 're supposed to go to the school , the doctor , for an examination but whether she realized that I do n't know . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 19 | While I was Iying there , waiting , I realised that I had n't told Paul where to hit the bomb . |
| 20 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 21 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 22 | I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 25 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 26 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 27 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 30 | 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 . |