Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 2 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 3 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 4 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 5 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 6 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 7 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
| 8 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 9 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 10 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 11 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 12 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 14 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 15 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 16 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 17 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 18 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 19 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 20 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 21 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 22 | It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess . |
| 23 | Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it . |
| 24 | I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted . |
| 25 | I , I just put it on his dinner , cos there 's no way that I squirt it in his mouth , I 'd probably choke him . |
| 26 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
| 27 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 28 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 29 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 30 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |