Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 4 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 5 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 6 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it . |
| 9 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 10 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 11 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 12 | So did his explanatory remark that he had written it ‘ to show that I know something about birds ’ . |
| 13 | It is n't the first time you 've implied that I know something about what 's going on , so how about explaining it to me ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 15 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 16 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 17 | You all insist that I know nothing but nobody else can do this . |
| 18 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 19 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 20 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 21 | Thank God he did n't know what I was sure of , that I felt everything as if through a mattress . |
| 22 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 23 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 24 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 27 | Marchmont himself was forced to admit that ‘ Lord Anson 's promises are so long in the performing that I reckon none of us will build sudden expectations upon them ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 29 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 30 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |