Example sentences of "[vb infin] that i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How — er — how did you know that I lived here ? ’ she muttered as he led her inside the lift , reaching across to push the correct floor button . |
| 2 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
| 3 | It 's just that we did n't know that I did n't hear what she said . |
| 4 | What did they know that I did n't ? |
| 5 | You 'd much prefer that I did n't . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How could I explain that I did n't have the money to go ? |
| 7 | ‘ Even my good friend Shallot could not swear that I did not slip out of my chamber to commit this dreadful act . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And why on earth should you automatically assume that I came here with the express purpose of blackmail ? ’ |
| 9 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 10 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 11 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 12 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 13 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 14 | However , you may see that I worked over many lines before the ink had been allowed to dry , so in some places the black ink has become fused with the watercolour . |
| 15 | He , he did n't realize that I had more stacked in the other room ready to come out |
| 16 | It made me realize that I did n't want to share Bourani with anyone . |
| 17 | They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't realise that I had not completely accepted Zoe . |
| 19 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |
| 20 | ‘ I must admit that I had n't expected such a prompt response to my advertisement . |
| 21 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 22 | I must admit that I did not enjoy Osborne House that much but I was very tired by then . |
| 23 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 24 | " Fiver , I wo n't pretend that I did n't follow you up here to speak angrily . |
| 25 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 26 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 27 | I could n't say that I felt very well for that was n't quite true , but I certainly no longer felt ill . |
| 28 | By then the subject-matter had enthralled me , and I shall not say that I felt more loving . |
| 29 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 30 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |